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

Ben Jonson

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
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
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON

Mischief Past Virtue
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
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
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
BEN JONSON

Home Joy
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once

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