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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

Ben Jonson

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
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
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Men Office
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

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