"Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss."
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"Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake."
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"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
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"There is a history in all men's lives."
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"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament."
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"He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings."
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"Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction."
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"The people are the city."
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"To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour."
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"Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain."
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"For this relief, much thanks"
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"I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence."
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"Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."
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"He makes a July's day short as December."
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"Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir."
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"The king's name is a tower of strength."
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"Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem."
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"We must be brief when traitors brave the field."
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"Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon."
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