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

Ben Jonson

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
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.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
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.
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Action Calumny Watches
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!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once

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