"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."

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""Convey," the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase!"

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"That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

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"She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold."

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"Every why hath a wherefore."

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"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."

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"Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English."

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"Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are?"

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"The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try."

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"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

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"So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever."

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"I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."

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"My library Was dukedom large enough."

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"The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death."

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"The cunning livery of hell."

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"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."

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"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

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"My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna."

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"Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

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"A man whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense."

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"This is the short and the long of it."

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"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."

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"He hath indeed better bettered expectation."

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"Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk!"

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"A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences."

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"A kind Of excellent dumb discourse."

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"We would, and we would not."

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"One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy."

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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

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"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."

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"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."

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"A man I am, cross'd with adversity."

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"They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad."

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"There 's the humour of it."

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"Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale."

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"There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't."

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"Is she not passing fair?"

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"Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt."

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"Think of that, Master Brook."

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"Every true man's apparel fits your thief."

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"With foreheads villanous low."

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"It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love."

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"O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!"

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"What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine."

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"He was ever precise in promise-keeping."

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"Truth is truth To the end of reckoning."

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"Fer. Here 's my hand. Mir. And mine, with my heart in 't."

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"A man of my kidney."

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"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."

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"I have a kind of alacrity in sinking."

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