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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.

Ben Jonson

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

Change Men Want Welcome
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
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
BEN JONSON

Home Joy
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
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
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton

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