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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

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
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
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves

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