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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

Ben Jonson

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
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
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSON

Folly Impudence Rudeness
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
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
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
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.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

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