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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

Ben Jonson

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

Funeral Physicians Punishment
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
BEN JONSON

Men Mistress Shadow
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

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