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That old bald cheater, Time.

Ben Jonson

Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise

That old bald cheater, Time.

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