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I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
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A fool's bolt is soon shot.
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Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
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Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
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Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
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Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
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But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
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I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
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I have not slept one wink.
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I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
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He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
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The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
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Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.