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"Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed."
"Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night."
"O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again."
"Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek."
"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"
"True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south."
"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified."
"Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!"
"The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live."
"Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love"
"Woe to that land that's governed by a child."
"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
"People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass."
"I understand a fury in your words But not your words."
"Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy."
"The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show."
"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"
"Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep."
"O, call back yesterday, bid time return"
"The prize of all too precious you."