"The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies."

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"Like a fair house, built on another man's ground."

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"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."

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"Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book."

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"A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion."

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"Gon. Here is everything advantageous to life. Ant. True; save means to live."

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"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world."

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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

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"This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death."

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"This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there."

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"He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat."

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"The pleasing punishment that women bear."

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"O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect."

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

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"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind."

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"And if it please you, so; if not, why, so."

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"The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."

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"He that dies pays all debts."

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"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance."

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"Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home."

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"Unless experience be a jewel."

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"Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie."

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"He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage."

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"I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."

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"From the still-vexed Bermoothes."

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"O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!"

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"All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may."

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"Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist."

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"A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man."

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"What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?"

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"The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril."

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"Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."

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"But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep."

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"Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use."

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"Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain."

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"I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so."

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"Come not within the measure of my wrath."

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"We burn daylight."

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"O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!"

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"Thou art the Mars of malcontents."

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"Deeper than e'er plummet sounded."

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"Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole."

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"Mine host of the Garter."

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"Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie."

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"There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana."

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"A very valiant trencher-man."

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"The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope."

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"I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here."

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"O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?"

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"A very ancient and fish-like smell."

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