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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

Ben Jonson

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
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
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once

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