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The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die
The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.
I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.
Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.
This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.