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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

Ben Jonson

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSON

Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

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