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

Ben Jonson

Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
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
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain House
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet

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

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