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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

A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

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

Fear Men Passion
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
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.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance

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