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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.

Ben Jonson

A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSON

Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
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.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader

No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.

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