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

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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Cutting Men Whispering
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON

Glory Servant Virtue
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON

Hell Industry Yield
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise

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

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