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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSON

Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

Meat Swans Sweet
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
BEN JONSON

Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
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
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSON

Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise

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