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Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
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
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSON

Heart Hypocrisy Spread

He was not of an age, but for all time!

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