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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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If all you boast of your great art be true Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow Best, while you have it, use your breath There is no drinking after death.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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