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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Ben Jonson

He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Long Pleasure Treasure
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
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
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
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
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Heaven Men
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

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