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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ben Jonson

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
BEN JONSON

Law Men Mind Order Sense
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
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
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSON

Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind

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