"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."
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"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it."
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"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."
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"When I waked, I cried to dream again"
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"Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt."
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"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet"
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"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."
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"The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony."
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"Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion"
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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
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"Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation."
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"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"
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"Simply the thing that I am shall make me live."
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"I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely."
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"I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service."
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"Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself."
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"I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
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"Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow."
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"I must be cruel, only to be kind."
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"I am a man more sinned against than sinning"
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