"It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician."
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"For who so firm that cannot be seduced?"
"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."
"Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by"
"There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year."
"Let me be boiled to death with melancholy."
"Love is . . . a madness most discreet"
"Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling."
"I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine."
"My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten."
"Ay me! sad hours seem long."
"If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends."
"Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!"
"Love's best habit is a soothing tongue"
"As merry as the day is long."
"thus with a kiss I die"
"Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words"
"Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath."
"Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus."
"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."