"Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity."
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"Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining."
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"Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose."
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"Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence."
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"All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear."
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"If love be blind, it best agrees with night"
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"If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground"
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"And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes."
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"Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand."
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"This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion."
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"Love sees with the heart and not with mind."
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"Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act."
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"Let the end try the man."
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"Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses."
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"A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?"
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"Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons, Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus, Or any one of you, chop off your hand And send it to the King: he for the same Will send thee hither both thy sons alive, And that shall be the ransom for their fault."
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"Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no."
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"This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings."
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"An earnest conjuration from the King, As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish, As peace should still her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma 'tween their amities, And many such-like as's of great charge, That, on the view and knowing of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving time allow'd."
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"If you be King, why should not I succeed?"
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