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

Ben Jonson

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
BEN JONSON

Home Stills Wanderers
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

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

Half Heaven Venture
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
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.
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Black Brain House
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress

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

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