"Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to."
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"Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue."
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"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on."
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"And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love."
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"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks."
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"Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth."
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"So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time"
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues."
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"To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars."
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"Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse."
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"Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view."
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"O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!"
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"For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates."
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"Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie."
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"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so."
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"I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move."
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"One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."
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"What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?"
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"We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
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