"A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more."
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"so full of shapes is fancy"
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"A man can die but once."
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"A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother."
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"Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale."
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"The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends."
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"There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts."
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"They that stand high have many blasts to shake them."
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"I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people."
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"That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away."
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"Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct."
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"Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud."
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"It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won."
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"Inconstancy falls off ere it begins."
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"His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!"
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"
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"I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . ."
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"You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances."
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"Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."
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