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

Ben Jonson

How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
BEN JONSON

Men Mistress Shadow
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Heaven Men
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
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
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
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSON

Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words

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