"I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise."
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"Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company."
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"As good luck would have it."
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"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
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"From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing."
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"'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."
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"Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?"
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"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind"
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"How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod."
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"To be direct and honest is not safe."
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"The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger."
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"Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut."
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"God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!"
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"Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own."
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"Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?"
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"There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable."
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"Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well."
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"The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."
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"She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold."
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"Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!"
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