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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

Ben Jonson

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
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.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
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.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing

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