"There's daggers in men's smiles."
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"Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman."
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"Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation."
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"You are strangely troublesome."
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"I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no."
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"Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them."
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"Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in."
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"Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts."
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"He is not great who is not greatly good."
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"Pardon's the word to all."
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"But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat."
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"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil."
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"It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees."
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"Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."
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"Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke."
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"O, how full of briers is this working-day world!"
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"His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise."
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"I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me."
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"How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!"
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