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

Ben Jonson

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
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
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
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
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
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
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
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.
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Action Calumny Watches
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave

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

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