"Extremity is the trier of spirits."
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"You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again."
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"And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent."
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"To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief."
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"O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed."
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"Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true."
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"So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone."
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"And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."
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"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."
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"But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!"
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"it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return."
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"Can I go forward when my heart is here?"
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"And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge."
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"Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth."
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"Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?"
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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed."
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"I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die."
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