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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Ben Jonson

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSON

Art Judging Men
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSON

Ancient Heaven Silent
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant

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