"Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?"
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"By Heaven, I love thee better than myself"
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"O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night."
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"Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour."
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"I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you"
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"It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit."
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"The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment."
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"Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood."
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"You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave."
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"And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night."
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"Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this."
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"O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!"
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"Who is so firm that can't be seduced?"
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"How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry."
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"To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony."
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"Do all men kill the things they do not love?"
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"A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!"
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"O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed."
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"I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me."
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"Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter."
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