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The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
BEN JONSON

Law Men Mind Order Sense
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

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

Feet Flower Roots
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

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

Guilt Guilty Shame
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor

The burnt child dreads the fire.

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