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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

Ben Jonson

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 men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSON

Art Giving Lying
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
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
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Men Teaching Wise
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks

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