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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

Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON

Glory Servant Virtue
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
BEN JONSON

Art Ask Matter Praise Style
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

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

Disease Talking
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON

Enemy Grief Men
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

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

Ears Speak Understanding
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor

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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