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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

Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
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
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSON

Art Common Lying Security Sleep
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner

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.

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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.

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