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"Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet."
"One man in his time plays many parts."
"Patch up thine old body for heaven."
"I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier."
"What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it."
"But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow."
"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."
"I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably."
"I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers."
"My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion."
"If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again."
"I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?"
"That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage."
"Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!"
"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."
"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
"The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance."
"Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it."