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A good dog deserves a good bone.

Ben Jonson

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Long Pleasure Treasure
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
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
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame

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