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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Ben Jonson

Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
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
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed

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