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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Ben Jonson

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSON

Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy

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