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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Ben Jonson

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.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
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 perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent

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