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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent

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