"It is a good divine that follows his own instructions."
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"Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails."
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"This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
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"We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail."
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"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just."
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"Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience."
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"The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down."
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"Listen to many, speak to a few."
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"I do desire we may be better strangers."
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"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."
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"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."
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"O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?"
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"In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke."
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"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red."
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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
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"Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial."
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"Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee."
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"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
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"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
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"Highly fed and lowly taught."
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