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How ready is heaven to those that pray!

Ben Jonson

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
BEN JONSON

Boast Fall Pieces Wise
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return

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