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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

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
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
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
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
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
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
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

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

Passion Spiritual Understanding
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise

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

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