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

Ben Jonson

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
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
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance

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