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The burnt child dreads the fire.

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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON

Imperfect Light Opinion Things
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time

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