"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
"Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad."
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought"
"The instruments of darkness tell us truths."
"Death rock me asleep."
"I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music."
"My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white."
"Policy sits above conscience."
"The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action."
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
"Educated men are so impressive."
"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm"
"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
"Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster."
"Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts."
"In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime."
"When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."
"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again."