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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 Jonso
• Out-did the meat, out-did the frolick wine. -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- Ode for Ben Jonso
• He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -- Ben Jonso
• Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
  Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramid...
• Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise!
  I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room....
• Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,--almighty gold.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland...
• Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- The Gipsies Metamorphosed...
• Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Underwoods. Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme...