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You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.
Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.
One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.