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

Ben Jonson

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
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.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain House
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress

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