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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Ben Jonson

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

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

Honesty Vulgar
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred

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