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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Ben Jonson

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
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.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
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
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet

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