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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

Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
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.
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Morning Regret Simple
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
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
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech

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