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"Give obedience where 'tis truly owed."
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"As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket."
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"Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation."
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"No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell."
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"Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood."
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"The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse."
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"It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him."
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"The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due."
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"O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!"
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"I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly."
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"Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit."
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"Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again."
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"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."
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"The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life. The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks."
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"For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives."
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"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."
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"Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds."
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"It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give."
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!"
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