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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Ben Jonson

Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
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
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
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
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life

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