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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Ben Jonson

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

Anchors Needs Sea
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
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
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
BEN JONSON

Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

Color Trueness
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
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.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

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