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Ben Jonson

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
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
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

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