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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
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
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True

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