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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
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
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.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time

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