"The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose."
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
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"What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say"
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"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad."
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"Life's uncertain voyage."
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"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess"
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"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."
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"Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe"
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"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."
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"Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."
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"The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so."
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"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."
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"Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave."
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"Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself."
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"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
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"Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor."
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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."
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"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come."
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"A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee."
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