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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
BEN JONSON

Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
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
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

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