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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

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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Broken Honor Long
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying

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