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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

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
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.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSON

Benefits Done Men
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men

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