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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson

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

Birthday Praying Return
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
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
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain House
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked

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