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"Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done."
"I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep."
"This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest."
"A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant."
"How much an ill word may empoison liking!"
"The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand."
"He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him."
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"
"While we lie tumbling in the hay."
"Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs."
"O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation."
"The mind of guilt is full of scorpions."
"He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone."
"Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life."
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man."
"Assume a virtue if you have it not."
"Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed."
"What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure."
"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."