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

Ben Jonson

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief
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 covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON

Enemy Grief Men
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON

Infinite Men Soul
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
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

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