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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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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
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue

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

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