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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Ben Jonson

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

Disease Talking
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 burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
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

Art Fighting Winning
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years

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