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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
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City of Westminster
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest Would thou could'st make the time to do so too I'll wind thee up no more.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.
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One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused the understanding is not.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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