"If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."
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"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall."
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"We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have."
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"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."
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"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
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"Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."
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"Now I will believe that there are unicorns."
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"God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet."
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"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality."
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
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"Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age."
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"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."
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"Jesters do oft prove prophets."
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"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
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"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies."
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