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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

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

Birthday Praying Return
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
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
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.
BEN JONSON

Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue

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