"This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid."
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"GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . ."
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"Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation."
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"O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since."
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"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."
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"My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation."
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"Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill."
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"But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes."
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"Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!"
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"Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator."
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"The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet."
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"O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears."
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"Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?"
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"Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!"
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"He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity."
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"That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone."
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"The present eye praises the present object."
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"What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near."
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"The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue."
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"The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible."
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