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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

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
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 lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSON

Art Judging Men
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant

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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