"I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably."
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"Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear."
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"Youth to itself rebels, though none else near."
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"A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!"
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"War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife."
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"Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all."
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"Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison."
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"The breach of custom Is breach of all."
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"If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance."
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"Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!"
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"Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles."
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"A woman's fitness comes by fits."
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"For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears."
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"Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds."
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"Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?"
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"I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away."
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"My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have."
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"That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in a storm."
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"Tis better using France than trusting France; Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, Which He hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only defend ourselves; In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies."
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"Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes."
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