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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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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
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
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
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

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

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