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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

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
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
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
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
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
BEN JONSON

Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet

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

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