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

Ben Jonson

He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
BEN JONSON

Law Men Mind Order Sense
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
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.
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Blow Slumber Wind
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding

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