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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

Ben Jonson

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain House
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
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
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSON

Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

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