"Too much to know is to know naught but fame."
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"The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune."
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"Nice customs curtsy to great kings."
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"Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare."
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"Leave us to our free election."
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"This liberty is all that I request."
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"Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!"
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"Having my freedom, boast of nothing else."
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"I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause."
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"Who is here so vile that will not love his country?"
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"In right and service to their noble country."
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"With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature."
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"On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air"
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"Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd."
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"Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep."
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"I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation."
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"That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal."
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"The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity."
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"Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key."
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"What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory."
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