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

Ben Jonson

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
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.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

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

Birthday Praying Return
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

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

Fear Men Passion
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters

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