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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

Ben Jonson

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSON

Cup Drinking Men
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter

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