"Hasty marriage seldom proveth well."
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"With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage."
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"Be wary then; best safety lies in fear."
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"Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea."
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"The patient must minister to himself"
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"Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living."
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"Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you."
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd."
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"Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces"
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"By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord."
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"Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?"
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"Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her."
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"My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent."
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"We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion."
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"Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger."
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"The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse."
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"Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."
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"A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?"
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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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"Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment."
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