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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

Ben Jonson

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
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
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
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
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
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
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment

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