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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.

Ben Jonson

The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.

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