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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

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Heaven Men
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander

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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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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