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

Ben Jonson

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

Beast Flattery Tyrant
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Heaven Men
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
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
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing

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