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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
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
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
BEN JONSON

Home Stills Wanderers
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things

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