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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson

The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
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.
BEN JONSON

Law Men Mind Order Sense
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
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
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
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON

Acknowledge Ass Devil
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life

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