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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

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Long Pleasure Treasure
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
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
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

Education Inspirational Past

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

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