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

Ben Jonson

Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
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’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

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

Friendship Happiness Positive
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSON

Art Common Lying Security Sleep
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON

Acknowledge Ass Devil
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth

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