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

Ben Jonson
Life, Summer, June
'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.