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

Ben Jonson

The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
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
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

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

False Giving News True
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
BEN JONSON

Men Mistress Shadow
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
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSON

Mean Remembrance Rich World

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