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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

Ben Jonson

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

Forget Sun Time
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
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
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON

Mischief Past Virtue
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul

Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

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