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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Ben Jonson

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
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
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
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

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

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