"As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye."

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"He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity."

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"Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down."

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"There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old."

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"Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face."

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"Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him."

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"Off with his head!"

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"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."

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"A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench."

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"While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!"

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"There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth; . . . and there is salmons in both."

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"I 'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly."

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"She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won."

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"Truth hath a quiet breast."

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"I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen."

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"I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well."

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"He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war."

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"Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,-- I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw."

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"This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman."

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"No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!"

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"I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start."

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"A poor lone woman."

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"There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."

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"Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill."

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"I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship."

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"Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword."

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"Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own."

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"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."

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"I could have better spared a better man."

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"Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions."

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"God save the mark."

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"Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread."

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"I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers."

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"That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years."

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"We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man."

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"All hell shall stir for this."

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"And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."

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"Old father antic the law."

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"In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire."

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"Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs."

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"Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?"

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"Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?"

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"A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I 'll not march through Coventry with them, that 's flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison. There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves."

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"There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out."

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"O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

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"Play out the play."

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"With all appliances and means to boot."

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"Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster."

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"Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good."

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"Aggravate your choler."

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