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

Ben Jonson

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
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
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

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

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