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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

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
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
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
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
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
BEN JONSON

Greatness Mind Scorn Watches

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.

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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.

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