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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Ben Jonson

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSON

Art Common Lying Security Sleep
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSON

Ancient Heaven Silent
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary

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