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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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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again turn it new.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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To the old, long life and treasure To the young, all health and pleasure.
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