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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

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.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
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 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
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSON

Half Heaven Venture
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
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
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing

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