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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

Ben Jonson

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSON

Half Heaven Venture
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.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
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
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
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!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life

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