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Adversity
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
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Color
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Blueness doth express trueness.
-Ben Jonson
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Communism
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
-Ben Jonson
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Contradiction
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All concord's born of contraries.
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Crime
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Doubt
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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.
-Ben Jonson
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Evil
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They that know no evil will suspect none.
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Happiness
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
-Ben Jonson
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Honor
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Horses, Horse Racing
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
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Illness, Disease, Sickness
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Music
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Speeches (oratory)
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
-Ben Jonson
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Time
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Books by and about Ben Jonson