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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

Ben Jonson

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

Birthday Praying Return
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
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
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
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.
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Father Greatness Son
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace

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