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• Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

  Ben Jonson

  Cutting, Men, Whispering

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.797, Delphi Classics

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• The burnt child dreads the fire.

  Ben Jonson

  Children, Fire, Dread

  Ben Jonson, Peter Happe (1996). “The Devil Is An Ass”, p.69, Manchester University Press

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• One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

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  Women, Character, Trouble

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.409, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• Tell troth and shame the devil.

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  Truth, Devil, Shame

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The tale of a tub. The sad shepherd; or, A tale of Robin Hood. Mortimer's fall. Entertai[n]ments. Speeches. Masques at court”, p.28

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• All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

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  Wise, World, Littles

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.275, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.

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  Horse, Wind, Rivers

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3181, Delphi Classics

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• Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

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  Soul, Age, Delight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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• Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were
  To see thee in our water yet appear.

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  Sweet, Swans, Sight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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• Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

  Ben Jonson

  Anxiety, Care, Possession

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• I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
  No broken images of ancestors,
  Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
  Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

  Ben Jonson

  Long, Broken, Honor

  Ben Jonson, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1966). “The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary”

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• Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. 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.

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  Winning, Past, Years

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3211, Delphi Classics

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• Man and wife make one fool.

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  Marriage, Men, Wife

  1614 Bartholomew Fair, act 1, sc.1.

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• Your highest female grace is silence.

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  Silence, Grace, Female

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman”, p.337

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• For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

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  Love, May, Sake

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.788

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• Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

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  Sweet, Swans, Meat

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman”, p.45

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• It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

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  Art, Lying, Giving

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

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• Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

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  Hate, Hatred, Ignorant

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3181, Delphi Classics

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• Still to be neat, still to be drest,
  As you were going to a feast,
  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
  Lady, it is to be presumed,
  Though art's hid causes are not found,
  All is not sweet, all is not sound.

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  Sweet, Art, Causes

  'Epicoene' (1609) act 1, sc. 1

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• Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

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  Writing, Sweat, Lines

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”, p.693

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• How ready is heaven to those that pray!

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  Prayer, Heaven, Praying

  Ben Jonson (2014). “Ben Jonson: Four Plays”, p.160, A&C Black

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• Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Taken, Fruit

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.803

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• It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

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  Honor, Noble, Ancestry

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• A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

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  Gratitude, Men, Needs

  Ben Jonson (1995). “Poetaster”, p.62, Manchester University Press

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• We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

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  Fashion, Women, Quality

  Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.375

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• Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

  Ben Jonson

  Mind, Crowns, Virtue

  The Underwood,'An Ode to Himself' (published 1640).

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