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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

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