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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

Ben Jonson

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
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
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

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