"But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall."
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"All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may."
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"Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed."
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"Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?"
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"Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate"
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"I may command where I adore."
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"We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously."
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"It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!"
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"You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those."
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"If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make."
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"For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too."
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"Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it."
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"On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air"
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"I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may."
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"A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!"
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"What else may hap, to time I will commit."
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"Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers."
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"Since thy return, through days and weeks Of hope that grew by stealth, How many wan and faded cheeks Have kindled into health! The Old, by thee revived, have said, 'Another year is ours;' And wayworn Wanderers, poorly fed, Have smiled upon thy flowers."
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"Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them."
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"The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship."
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