This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.


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There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
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The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Mea...
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The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. S...
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They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For bei...
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What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -Measure...
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He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.
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The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal suf...
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We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.
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Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3.
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on natur...
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For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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A poor lone woman. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found ...
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O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. S...
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He hath eaten me out of house and home. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's tr...
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But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His...
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The human mortals. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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I 'll tickle your catastrophe. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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There 's the humour of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.
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Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in reme...
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The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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We burn daylight. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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My heart Is true as steel. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Eating the bitter bread of banishment. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.
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Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Ligh...
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Speak low if you speak love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.
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A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.
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As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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These most brisk and giddy-paced times. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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I know a trick worth two of that. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. A...
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My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ...
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I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. -King John....
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With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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Clearly, Russia doesn't measure up.
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Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
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This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
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Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice...
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Nigh...
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.
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And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm ...
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The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. -As You Like It. A...
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He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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Talks as familiarly of roaring lions As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs! -King John. Act ii. Sc....
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The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.
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These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
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Play out the play. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Ver...
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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
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A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. -Love's Lab...
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I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. ...
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A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
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And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry...
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
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'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
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To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
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All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
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Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
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The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
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Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
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Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
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Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
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A little more than kin, and less than kind!
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
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I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
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Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
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My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
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For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
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Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
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How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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