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

Ben Jonson

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

Fortune Men
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON

Good Ready Writing
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
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
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing

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

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