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"Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart."
"The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past."
"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye."
"If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more."
"Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal."
"Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste."
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile"
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
"You know who you are, but know not who you could be."
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air."
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
"Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts."
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
"The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness."
"I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill."
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
"The last taste of sweets is sweetest last."