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Ben Jonson
 
Name:   Ben Jonson
 
Nationality:   English
 
Date of Birth:   Jun 11, 1572
 
Date of Death:   Aug 6,  1637
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
 
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
 
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
 
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Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
 
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Talking is the disease of age.
 
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
 
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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.
 
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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
 
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I do honour the very flea of his dog.
 
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Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
 
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
 
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
 
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
 
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
 
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