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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.

Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
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.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Men Teaching Wise
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.

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