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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Ben Jonson

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
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
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

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

Disease Talking
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Men Office
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

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