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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.

Ben Jonson

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
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.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
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

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.

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