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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

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

Forget Sun Time
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Heaven Men
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World
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

Education Inspirational Past
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong

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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