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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Ben Jonson

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
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
BEN JONSON

Men Mistress Shadow
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSON

Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet

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