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"I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins."
"Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish."
"I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool."
"Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich."
"It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't."
"Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust."
"Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
"For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have."
"Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth."
"To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning."
"Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation."
"But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike."
"Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so."
"No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery."
"O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?"
"Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day."
"What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble."
"Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart; Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas."
"Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away."
"Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event."