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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Ben Jonson

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
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
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words

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