"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
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"Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world."
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"And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope."
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"Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer."
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"Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not."
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"it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance"
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"There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself."
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"How is it that the clouds still hang on you?"
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"All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold."
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"Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness."
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"I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet."
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"Angels and ministers of grace defend us."
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"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
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"All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown."
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"If there is a good will, there is great way."
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"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true."
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"I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul."
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"The man that hath no music in himself"
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"If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."
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"The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground."
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