"The most senseless and fit man."

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"O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes."

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"He is of a very melancholy disposition."

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"In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both."

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"You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine."

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"In the twinkling of an eye."

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"'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself."

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"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."

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"A high hope for a low heaven."

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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

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"A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well."

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"For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself."

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"Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!"

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"The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction."

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"O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!"

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"For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth."

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"I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight."

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"I have an exposition of sleep come upon me."

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"Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."

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"Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."

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"O, that he were here to write me down an ass!"

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"Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun."

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"A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out."

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"Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion."

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"The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest."

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"By my penny of observation."

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"I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale."

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"My heart Is true as steel."

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"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?"

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"Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are."

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"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

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"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much."

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"A very beadle to a humorous sigh."

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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,-- A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one."

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"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it."

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"If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word."

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"Must I hold a candle to my shames?"

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"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."

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"What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?"

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"But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness."

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"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo."

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"To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature."

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"Light seeking light doth light of light beguile."

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"A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip."

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"Speak me fair in death."

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"As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."

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"The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies."

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"A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day."

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"Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose."

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"It adds a precious seeing to the eye."

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