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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Ben Jonson

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

Art Being Poverty True
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
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON

Mischief Past Virtue
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress

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