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"He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew."
"Short summers lightly have a forward spring."
"So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love."
"Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman."
"Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France"
"The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love."
"What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart."
"Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
"Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience."
"Ready to go but never to return."
"Tempt not a desperate man"
"The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see."
"But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves."
"So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't."
"Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself."
"The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end."
"O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour."
"And a man's life's no more than to say "One.""
"All difficulties are easy when they are known."
"Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker."