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Ben Jonson

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
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.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life

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