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

Ben Jonson

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
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
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSON

Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON

Acknowledge Ass Devil
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
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
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile

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