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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Ben Jonson

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
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON

Acknowledge Ass Devil
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
BEN JONSON

Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks

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