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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

Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
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!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
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.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind

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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