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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
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
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

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