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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

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Long Pleasure Treasure
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
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 casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
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
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet

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