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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.

Ben Jonson

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

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

Feet Flower Roots
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Men Office
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

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

May Poetry War
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
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
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning

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