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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Ben Jonson

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

Anchors Needs Sea
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
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.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

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