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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

Ben Jonson

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

Birthday Praying Return
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSON

Cup Drinking Men
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
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
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

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