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

Ben Jonson

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

Character Trouble Women
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON

Glory Servant Virtue
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
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
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten

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