"A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day."
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"Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books."
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"Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring."
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"My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist."
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"So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote."
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"For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large."
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"Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them."
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"A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers."
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"Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book."
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"You kiss by th' book."
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"Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity."
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"I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself."
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"The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die."
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"I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book."
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"To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth."
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"Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books."
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"The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd"
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"Books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will."
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"Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets."
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"Dreams, books, are each a world."
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