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To the old, long life and treasure To the young, all health and pleasure.

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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
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Literary Critic
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City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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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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Rich apparel has strange virtues it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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All discourses but my own afflict me they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses but no ill can happen to a good man.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray prosperity never.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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