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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Ben Jonson

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

Little Wise World
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
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
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

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

Forget Sun Time
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
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
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
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
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
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?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure

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