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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Ben Jonson

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

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

Honesty Vulgar
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
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
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

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