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

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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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
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.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake

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

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