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Peace is never more than one thought away.

Ben Jonson

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.
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Broken Honor Long
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
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
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.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong

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