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

Ben Jonson

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

May Poetry War
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
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
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet

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