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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Ben Jonson

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.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
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.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking

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