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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
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
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War

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