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

Ben Jonson

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
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
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
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire

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

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