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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

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
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
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.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
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
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters

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