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

Ben Jonson

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

False Giving News True
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
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
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSON

Folly Impudence Rudeness
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

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

May Poetry War
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness

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