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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

Ben Jonson

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
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
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
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
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

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