"That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire."
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"Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak."
"A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame."
"I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered."
"I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
"As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer."
"Boldness be my friend."
"The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!"
"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
"In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read."
"We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
"And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days."
"When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes."
"He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May."
"I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip"
"I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked."
"Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."
"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"