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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Ben Jonson

Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
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
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

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

Past Winning Years
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
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.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things

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