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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

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life
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
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
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
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
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

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.

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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.

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