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

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
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
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife

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

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