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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

Ben Jonson

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
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
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
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
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
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
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

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