Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Think but how dear you boughtThis fame which you have caught:
Such thoughts will make you more in love with truth.
Ben Jonson
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Jonson
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears Yet slower yet, O faintly, gentle springs.
Ben Jonson
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me. It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
Ben Jonson
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast.
Ben Jonson
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
Ben Jonson
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