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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
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
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
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.
BEN JONSON

Art Ask Matter Praise Style
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
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
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

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