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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

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

Envy Honor Two
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.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
BEN JONSON

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

Anchors Needs Sea
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
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.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton

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