"But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly."
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"Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal."
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"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."
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"Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
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"Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away"
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"Every man has business and desire, Such as it is."
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"He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache"
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"How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?"
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"Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them."
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"I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself."
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"And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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"I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man."
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"I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all."
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"The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest."
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"Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind."
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"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."
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"IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer."
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"So well thy words become thee as thy wounds."
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"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."
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"The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order."
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