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

Ben Jonson

Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing

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

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