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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger."
"Our praises are our wages."
"Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"
"Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see"
"Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day."
"Talkers are no good doers."
"What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!"
"And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings."
"That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence."
"There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out."
"Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow."
"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green."
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
"I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience."
"We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body."
"Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary."
"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."
"I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world"
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost."
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."