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

Ben Jonson

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
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
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
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
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet

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