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

Ben Jonson

Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

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

Disease Talking
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
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
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
BEN JONSON

Home Joy
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
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

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