"Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold."
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"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets."
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"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends."
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"We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love."
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"We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst"
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"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win."
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"When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear."
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"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."
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". . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle."
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"Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."
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"Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!"
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"Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate."
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"Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man."
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"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."
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"Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig."
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"Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses."
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"That strain again! It had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet as it was before."
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"I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting."
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"Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search."
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"That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty."
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