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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son
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
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread

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