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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

Ben Jonson

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
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
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
BEN JONSON

Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON

Acknowledge Ass Devil

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

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