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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Ben Jonson

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSON

Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSON

Benefits Done Men
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield

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