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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Ben Jonson

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSON

Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet

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