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

Ben Jonson

My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
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
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
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
Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSON

Life Play Whole
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

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

Birthday Praying Return
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
BEN JONSON

Art Ask Matter Praise Style

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