"As you are old and reverend, you should be wise."
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"The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!"
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"Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller."
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"I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will."
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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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"Great men should drink with harness on their throats."
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"Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing."
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"Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand."
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"Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books."
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"Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal."
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"O shame, where is thy blush?"
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"Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me."
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"Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts."
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"Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy."
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"Direct not him whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose."
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"Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse."
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"The clock upbraids me with the waste of time."
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"The play's the thing."
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"And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence."
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"Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!"
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