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"I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend."
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"Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!"
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
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"By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too."
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"And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
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"This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen."
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"He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts."
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"The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie."
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"Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile."
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"He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing."
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"Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."
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"Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service"
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"The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!"
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"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end."
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"O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!"
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"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence"
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"I'll have no husband, if you be not he."
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends."
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