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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.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
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
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
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 good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money

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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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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