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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

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