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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
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
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSON

Art Giving Lying
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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