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

Ben Jonson

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
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
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
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
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
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

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

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