"Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor."
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"Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea."
"Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight."
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit"
"Ideas are the very coinage of your brain."
"In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence."
"Every great drama has its foreshadow."
"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need."
"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!"
"She is a woman, therefore to be won."
"Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late."
"He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love"
"Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough."
"So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever."
"What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?"
"Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?"
"Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen."
"Temptation: the fiend at my elbow."
"Beauty within itself should not be wasted."
"Lend less than you owe."