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"A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool."
"Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise."
"Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity."
"I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born."
"You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order."
"What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion."
"Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear"
"Let them obey that knows not how to rule."
"Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things."
"Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy."
"As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor."
"The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness."
"Light and lust are deadly enemies."
"Kindness nobler ever than revenge."
"By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm."
"Haste is needful in a desperate case."
"Our enemies are our outward consciences."
"More can I bear than you dare execute."
"But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal."
"Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity."