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

  Ben Jonson

  Two, Envy, Honor

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• A good king is a public servant.

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  Kings, Good Kings, Servant

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3197, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

  Ben Jonson

  Tyrants, Flattery, Beast

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.242

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• Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

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  Home, House, Faces

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• The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

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  Oratory, Poet, Orators

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.152

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• O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

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  Time, Sun, Forget

  Ben Jonson (1816). “The works of Ben Jonson: With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir”, p.419

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• If I freely may discover
  What should please me in my lover,
  I would have her fair and witty,
  Savouring more of court than city;
  A little proud, but full of pity;
  Light and humorous in her toying,
  Oft building hopes, and soon destroying,
  Long, but sweet in the enjoying;
  Neither too easy nor to hard;
  All extremes I would have barr'd.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sweet, Witty

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.690, Delphi Classics

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• Fortune, that favors fools.

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  Favors, Fool, Fortune

  The Alchemist prologue (1610)

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• 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.

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  Blow, Wind, Slumber

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• Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

  Ben Jonson

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

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• Silence in woman is like speech in man.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Silence, Speech

  Ben Jonson (2014). “Epicoene or The Silent Woman”, p.45, A&C Black

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• Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

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  Art, Lying, Sleep

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

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  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

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• I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

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  Father, Men, Parent

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “Memoirs of Jonson, &c. Every man in his humour”, p.18

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• Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

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  Kings, Bird, Poet

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• In the hope to meet
  Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

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  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.706

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• Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Mistress, Shadow

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

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• Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

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  Clothes, Wit, Countenance

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