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Ben Jonson

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

May Poetry War
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
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
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSON

Benefits Done Men
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON

Born Made Poet

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