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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
BEN JONSON

Men Mistress Shadow
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
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
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSON

Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Men Office
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh

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