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Success hath made me wanton.

Ben Jonson

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
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

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

Leadership May Men
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
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
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things

Success hath made me wanton.

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