"Still you keep o' the windy side of the law."

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"Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

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"Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty."

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"Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it."

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"The "why" is plain as way to parish church."

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"Good wine needs no bush."

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"Another lean unwashed artificer."

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"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect."

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"I do desire we may be better strangers."

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"It is meat and drink to me."

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"Let us make an honourable retreat."

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"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."

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"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"

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"For courage mounteth with occasion."

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"The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she."

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"Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety."

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"I am sure care 's an enemy to life."

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"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends."

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"I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me."

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"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"

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"Wherefore are these things hid?"

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"This is the very false gallop of verses."

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"Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror."

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"Fortune reigns in gifts of the world."

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"For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation."

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"The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love."

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"I think we do know the sweet Roman hand."

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"Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it."

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"And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms."

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"No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy."

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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted."

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"Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast."

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"Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly."

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"My friends were poor but honest."

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""Poor deer," quoth he, "thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much.""

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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."

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"From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed."

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"When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye."

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"How now, foolish rheum!"

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"Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out."

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"If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!"

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"Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth."

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"And do as adversaries do in law,-- Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."

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"One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him."

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"What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind."

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"Is it a world to hide virtues in?"

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"'T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it."

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"Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy."

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"These blessed candles of the night."

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