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

Ben Jonson

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
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
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play

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

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