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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

Ben Jonson

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSON

Art Giving Lying
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Spring
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
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.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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