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"Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
"O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie."
"Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find awaked in such a kind Both strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means, and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly."
"For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase."
"The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone."
"You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair."
"Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King."
"Speak comfortable words."
"Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate."
"The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush."
"Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected."
"Take pains. Be perfect."
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
"See where she comes apparelled like the spring."
"Oh what fools we mortals are."
"Omittance is no quittance."
"Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more."
"The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool."
"Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?"
"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple."