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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSON

Cup Drinking Men
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
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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Broken Honor Long
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

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