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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Ben Jonson

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

Relax Reputation Ruins
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
BEN JONSON

Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSON

Fruit Sweet Taken
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON

Acknowledge Ass Devil
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking

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