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

Ben Jonson

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
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
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSON

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

Past Winning Years
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

Ancestry Honor Noble
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Men Teaching Wise
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

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

Men Smoking
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

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

Father Men Parent

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