"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
"A good heart 'is worth gold."
"Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions"
"Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible."
"Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness."
"All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!"
"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too."
"You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live"
"Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust."
"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell."
"There is flattery in friendship."
"O excellent! I love long life better than figs."
"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world."
"You Jig, you amble, and you lisp."
"O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!"
"I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others."