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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

Ben Jonson

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
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

Black Brain House
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

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