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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

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSON

Half Heaven Venture
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSON

Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
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.
BEN JONSON

Boast Fall Pieces Wise
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
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
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind

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.

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