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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
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
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSON

Ignorance Men Science
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two

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