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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

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
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
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
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.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet

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