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I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.
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Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
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The prize of all too precious you.
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O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
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You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
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No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
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But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.
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O for a horse with wings!
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Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
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Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
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Who can be patient in extremes?
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To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
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Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
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Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.
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Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.
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Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other
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There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
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If there is a good will, there is great way.
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O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.
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By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.