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Ben Jonson

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things

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