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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

Ben Jonson
Life, Dream, Struggle

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Ben Jonson
Life, Losing, Dignity
Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.201

Our whole life is like a play.

Ben Jonson
Life, Play, Whole
Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.875

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson
Life, Summer, June
'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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