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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Ben Jonson

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

Anchors Needs Sea
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
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
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON

Enemy Grief Men

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