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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Ben Jonson

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

Honesty Vulgar
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
BEN JONSON

Law Men Mind Order Sense
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSON

Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science

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