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Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.
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Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
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A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
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See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!
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Boldness be my friend.
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Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
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This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.
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Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
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Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
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Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
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What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
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Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
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I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.
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God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
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All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!