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Ben Jonson

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Men Teaching Wise
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
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
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells

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