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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

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
BEN JONSON

Home Joy
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
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
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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSON

Fruit Sweet Taken
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
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
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
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return

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