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

Ben Jonson

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

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

Disease Talking
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
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
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSON

Art Judging Men
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
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
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
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

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

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