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

Ben Jonson

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
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
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
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
BEN JONSON

Home Stills Wanderers
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred

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