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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

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
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.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSON

Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
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

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.

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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.

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