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Ben Jonson

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

Praise Strikes Strokes
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
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.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
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.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War

That old bald cheater, Time.

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