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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!

Ben Jonson

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSON

Life Play Whole
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Care Cat Sorrow
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSON

Dignity Life Losing
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue

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