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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Ben Jonson

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
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.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
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.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time

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