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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
Ideas
Confound
Ancestors
Ancestor
Stolen
Humor
Funny
Best

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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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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Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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A good life is a main argument.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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