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Ben Jonson

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
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

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

Birthday Praying Return
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
BEN JONSON

Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

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

Forget Sun Time
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSON

Ancient Heaven Silent
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress

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