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• My thoughts and I were of another world.

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  World, Another World, My Thoughts

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”

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• 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, Science, Men

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.65, Manchester University Press

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• Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

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  Leadership, Men, May

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.53, Manchester University Press

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• To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

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  Long, Treasure, Pleasure

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.620

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• The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

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  Money, Men, Prodigals

  "The Staple of News".

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• Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

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  Inspiration, Ambition, Looks

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• Force works on servile natures, not the free.

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  Nature, Force

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory”, p.29

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• Calumnies are answered best with silence.

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  Silence, Advice, Calumny

  'Volpone' (1605) act 2, sc. 2

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• No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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  Wise, Men, May

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• The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

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  Life, Losing, Dignity

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.201

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• Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

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  Men, Order, Law

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3200, Delphi Classics

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• Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

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  Relax, Ruins, Reputation

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• Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

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  Mistress, Deny, Court

  'That Women are but Men's Shadows' (1616)

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• That old bald cheater, Time.

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  Time, Cheater

  Ben Jonson, C. H. Herford, P. and E. Simpson, Evelyn Simpson (1986). “Complete Critical Edition: 4. Cynthia's Revels; Poetaster; Sejanus; Eastward Ho”, p.215, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Echoes, Air

  'Eupheme' (1640) no. 4 'The Mind'

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• Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

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  Two, Envy, Honor

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.386

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• It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

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  Understanding, Ears, Speak

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1879). “The Works of Ben Jonson”

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• Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

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  Praise, Strikes, Strokes

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.46

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• Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

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  Beast, Fats, Mischief

  'Volpone' (1605) act 5, sc. 8

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• It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

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  Men, Giving, Virtue

  Ben Jonson (1892). “Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter: And Some Poems”

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• Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

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  Stars, Men, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.751

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• Our whole life is like a play.

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  Life, Play, Whole

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.875

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• No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

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  Wise, Teaching, Men

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.741

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

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  Men, Smoking, Orangutans

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• Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

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  Horse, Wine, Plies

  Ben Jonson (2014). “Epicoene or The Silent Woman”, p.63, A&C Black

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