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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Ben Jonson

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSON

Heart Hypocrisy Spread
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSON

Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
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

Ancient Heaven Silent
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow

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