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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Ben Jonson

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
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
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
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
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON

Glory Servant Virtue
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

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