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

Ben Jonson

I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Men Teaching Wise
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
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
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
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
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
BEN JONSON

Law Men Mind Order Sense
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

Food Romantic Wine
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom

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