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"Flesh and blood, You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian- Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong- Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art."
"Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!"
"Give it an understanding, but no tongue."
"What's done is done. The joy is in the doing."
"Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news."
"Grief best is pleased with grief's society."
"By-and-by is easily said."
"I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love."
"There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown."
"If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death."
"Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first."
"I have more care to stay than will to go."
"I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother."
"Pride went before, ambition follows him."
"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out."
"Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them."
"I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion."
"We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing."
"Hold, or cut bowstrings."
"I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best."