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Ben Jonson

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.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Spring
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Long Pleasure Treasure

Blueness doth express trueness.

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