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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

Ben Jonson

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

Lines Sweat Writing
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSON

Benefits Done Men
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
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

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