"Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you."

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"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make deeds ill done!"

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"Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If."

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"There 's small choice in rotten apples."

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"Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster."

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"Let the world slide."

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"I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it."

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"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."

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"More matter for a May morning."

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"This night methinks is but the daylight sick."

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"Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger."

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"They say miracles are past."

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"I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola."

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"An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you."

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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

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"Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs."

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"I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too."

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"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,-- Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty."

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"Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people."

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"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."

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"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

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"My cake is dough."

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"Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim."

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"How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection!"

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"'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy."

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"Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door."

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"A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a."

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"Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens."

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"For ever and a day."

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"'T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest."

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"True is it that we have seen better days."

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"He must needs go that the devil drives."

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"We cannot hold mortality's strong hand."

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"Talks as familiarly of roaring lions As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!"

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"Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,--but not for love."

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"One out of suits with fortune."

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"Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words Since I first call'd my brother's father dad."

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"And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd."

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"Now my soul hath elbow-room."

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"Whose words all ears took captive."

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"Out of my lean and low ability I 'll lend you something."

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"Service is no heritage."

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"As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names and men as these Which never were, nor no man ever saw."

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"Out of the jaws of death."

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"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

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"And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale."

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"The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn."

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"Mocking the air with colours idly spread."

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"Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form."

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"Good orators, when they are out, they will spit."

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