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

Ben Jonson

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

Born Contradiction Contrary
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
BEN JONSON

Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSON

Art Common Lying Security Sleep
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON

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

Past Winning Years
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
BEN JONSON

Home Joy
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace

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