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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.

Ben Jonson

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
BEN JONSON

Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.

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