"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."
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"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."
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"Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth."
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"You lack the season of all natures, sleep."
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"Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more."
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"Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution."
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"For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly."
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"Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery."
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"Every why hath a wherefore."
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"This is the very ecstasy of love."
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"Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace."
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"A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind."
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"Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance."
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"Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."
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"The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness."
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"Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be."
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"Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time."
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"Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy."
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"Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die."
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