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Ben Jonson

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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
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.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep

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