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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Ben Jonson

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
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
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSON

Art Common Lying Security Sleep
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
BEN JONSON

Home Joy
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

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