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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

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
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
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
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.
BEN JONSON

Art Common Lying Security Sleep
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
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
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

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

Conceited English Plain Play
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSON

Life Play Whole

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

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