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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Ben Jonson

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

Past Winning Years
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSON

Cup Drinking Men
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSON

Art Judging Men
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
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
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSON

Art Giving Lying

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

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