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

Ben Jonson

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
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
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
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
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSON

Ancient Heaven Silent
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

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

Art Fool Inspirational
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play

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

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