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

Ben Jonson

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSON

Art Giving Lying

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