Famous quotes containing the words ben j, ben and/or biography:
“Weep with me, all you that read
This little story;
And know, for whom a tear you shed
Death’s self is sorry.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)