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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
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.
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Black Brain House
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
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

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