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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Ben Jonson

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
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
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSON

Art Judging Men
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON

Glory Servant Virtue
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

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