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

Ben Jonson

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

Beast Flattery Tyrant
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
BEN JONSON

Intermission Newest Present Themselves
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.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent

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