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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

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
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.
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Men Salt Way
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking

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.

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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.

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