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

Ben Jonson

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

Affected Eloquence Foolish
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
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
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
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
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
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
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

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

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