"Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt."
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"The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on."
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"Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last."
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"Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die."
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"The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire."
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"This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more."
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"Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books."
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"All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are."
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"Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it."
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"Still constant is a wondrous excellence."
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"Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate."
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"Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush."
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"The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely."
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"Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born."
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"A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words."
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"What else may hap, to time I will commit."
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"For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how."
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"I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age."
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"I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered."
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"Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit."
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