"I would fain die a dry death."
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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
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"Nimble thought can jump both sea and land."
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"Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
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"And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound."
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"Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse."
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"The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy."
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"My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation."
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
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"When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents."
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"What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?"
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"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."
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"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast."
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"Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long."
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"Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent."
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"How low am I, thou painted maypole?"
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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
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"O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far."
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