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Ben Jonson Biography

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English playwright during the reign of James VI and I after William Shakespeare.

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All concord's born of contraries.

Born, Contradiction, Contraries, Contrary

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Child, Children, Dread, Dreads, Fire

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Affection, Father, Man, Men, Parent, Perceive

Confound these ancestors. . . They've stolen our best ideas!

Ancestors, Funny, Humor, Ideas, Stolen

That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.

Alone, Brother, Companion, Man, Money, Sweet

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.

Beat, Five, Sleep, Thy, Time, Wind

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

Ends, Marks, Men, Orangutans, Point, Smoking

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Beast, Beasts, Flatterer, Flattery, Tame, Tyrants

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

Cups, Drinking, Guilty, Innocently, Make, Men

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Art, Create, Men, Monsters, Quell

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Imperfect Things, Light, Opinion, Thing, Vain

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

Anxiety, Breast, Care, Cares, Entered, Possession

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Affected, Eloquence, Foolish, Plain, Wisdom

Man and wife make one fool.

Fool, Make, Marriage, Men, Wife

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Guilt, Terrible, Terrible Things, Thing

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

Degree, Degrees, Dispense, Doth, Freedom

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

Fruit, Fruits, Seen, Steal, Sweet, Taken

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

Two, Envy, Honor, Burdens, Honours, Loads

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Ancient, Heaven, Nature, Poetry, Silent

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Negligence, Relax, Reputation, Ruins, Success

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