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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

Ben Jonson

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
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
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
BEN JONSON

Law Men Mind Order Sense
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking

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