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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Ben Jonson

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

Morning Regret Simple
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

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

Birthday Praying Return
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Heaven Men
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON

Mischief Past Virtue
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence

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