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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Ben Jonson

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious

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