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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Ben Jonson

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
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain House
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

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

Lines Sweat Writing
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World

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