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

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON

Enemy Grief Men
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred

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