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

Ben Jonson

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
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
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
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
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
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

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

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