"Downy sleep, death's counterfeit."
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"Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves."
"Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own"
"Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him."
"To fear the worst oft cures the worst."
"Let us kill all lawyers"
"I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth."
"The hideous god of war."
"I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again."
"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe."
"Would I were in an alehouse in London."
"O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?"
"We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers."
"I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now."
"As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose."
"I am sure care's an enemy to life."
"On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride."
"How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!"
"Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition"
"An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind."