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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

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSON

Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
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
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue

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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