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"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange."
"How slow This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, Like to a stepdame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue."
"There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness."
"Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs."
"Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep."
"All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity."
"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
"But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven."
"Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap."
"I came, saw, and overcame."
"Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself."
"One sin another doth provoke."
"It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver."
"How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!"
"Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!"
"The weary sun hath made a golden set And by the bright tract of his fiery car Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow."
"Hardness ever of hardness is mother."
"But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day."
"Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil."
"But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it."