"Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?"
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"Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low."
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"Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punished Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land, With plumed helm thy state begins to threat, Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries 'Alack, why does he so?']"
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"For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too."
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"Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing."
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"The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours."
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"The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it."
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"Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind."
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"Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself."
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"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath."
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"To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies."
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"God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks."
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"However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God."
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"Gold--what can it not do, and undo?"
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"Friendship's full of dregs."
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"Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything."
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"Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors."
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"Best men oft are moulded out of faults."
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"Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph."
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"It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common."
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