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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

Ben Jonson

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSON

Life Play Whole
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
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
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

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

Joy Speak Tongue

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

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