"Were't not for laughing, I should pity him."
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"Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal."
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"The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water."
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"JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened."
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"Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed."
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"When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief."
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"This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it."
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"Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death."
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"Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour."
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"O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?"
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"For now they kill me with a living death."
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"Every fair from fair sometime declines"
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"They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor"
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"Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button."
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"Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!"
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"Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it."
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"I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no."
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"Ships are but boards, sailors but men."
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"Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!"
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"Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight But where her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety."
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