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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

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSON

Cup Drinking Men
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSON

Folly Impudence Rudeness
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain House
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession

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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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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