What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON
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How near to good is what is fair!
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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A good life is a main argument.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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