"Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve."
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"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."
"This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion."
"Glory is like a circle in the water"
"When the age is in, the wit is out"
"Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste."
"As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown."
"Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth."
"This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love."
"Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor."
"Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud."
"Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow."
"She speaks poniards, and every word stabs."
"There's place and means for every man alive."
"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces."
"Time travels in divers paces with divers persons."
"The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break."
"I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."