"You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face."
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"Love that well which thou must leave ere long."
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"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care."
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"O war! thou son of Hell!"
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"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty."
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"Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light."
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"Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons."
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"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed."
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"To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?"
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"Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful."
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"Nor age so eat up my invention."
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"Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion."
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"Fools are not mad folks."
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"How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!"
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"By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive."
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"He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips."
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"If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?"
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"When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again."
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"I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown."
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"We must be gentle now we are gentlemen."
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