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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.

Ben Jonson

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Long Pleasure Treasure
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

Exercise Men Writing
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.

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