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

Ben Jonson

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish

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

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