"I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness."
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"Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."
"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms."
"Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am"
"Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions."
"Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares."
"Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings."
"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
"We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another."
"Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look."
"Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty."
"Hear the meaning within the word."
"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends."
"In time we hate that which we often fear."
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."
"Let's go hand in hand, not one before another."
"My heart is ever at your service."
"Speak low, if you speak love."
"Come not between the dragon and his wrath."
"Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun."