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Ben Jonson

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
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
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSON

Half Heaven Venture
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
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.
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Father Greatness Son
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress

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