Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSONIt is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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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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