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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son

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