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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
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
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

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

Praise Strikes Strokes
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound

He threatens many that hath injured one.

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