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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.

Ben Jonson

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Men Office
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSON

Life Play Whole
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.

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