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

Ben Jonson

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
BEN JONSON

Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine

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