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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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All discourses but my own afflict me they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul lest it be thought the breath Of discontent or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray And so do I.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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