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Ben Jonson

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain 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
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSON

Half Heaven Venture
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks

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