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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
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.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary

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