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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

Ben Jonson

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

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

Past Winning Years
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect

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