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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Ben Jonson

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
BEN JONSON

Home Stills Wanderers
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing

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