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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Ben Jonson

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
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.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things

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