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Ben Jonson

Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSON

Fruit Sweet Taken
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

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

Affected Eloquence Foolish
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence

That old bald cheater, Time.

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