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

Ben Jonson

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
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
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
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
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots

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