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

Ben Jonson

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
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
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks

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