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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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Stolen
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Funny
Best
Ideas
Confound
Ancestors

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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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