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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.

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

Men, Journey, Good Man

Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3199, Delphi Classics

How near to good is what is fair!

Ben Jonson

Goodness, Fairs

"Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly". Musical by Ben Jonson, 1611.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Ben Jonson

Guilt, Shame, Guilty

"Volpone; or, The fox. Catiline his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. Sejanus his fall".

That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.

Ben Jonson

Sweet, Brother, Money

Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

Ben Jonson

Dream, Hate, Hatred

Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson ...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Biographical Memoir”, p.47

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

Ben Jonson

Prayer, Wicked Person, Affliction

Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3176, Delphi Classics

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

Ben Jonson

Wise, Fall, Pieces

Ben Jonson (1990). “Sejanus His Fall”, p.261, Manchester University Press

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Ben Jonson

Art, Style, Matter

Ben Jonson (1756). “Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.133

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.

Ben Jonson

Beer, Drink, Wells

Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Every man in his humour. Every man out of his humour. Cynthia's revels; or, the fountain of self-love”, p.49

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

Ben Jonson

Truth, Disappointment, Envy