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Success hath made me wanton.
Ben Jonson
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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
Benjamin Jonson
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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All discourses but my own afflict me they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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