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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Ben Jonson

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
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
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
BEN JONSON

Law Men Mind Order Sense
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

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