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

Sight Swans Sweet
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
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
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten

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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