"Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep."

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"Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?"

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"A man can die but once."

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"The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."

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"And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called the untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility."

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"Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down."

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"'T is lack of kindly warmth."

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"Here comes the lady! O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint."

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"The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come."

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"A royal train, believe me."

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"Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies."

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"Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment."

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"With an angry wafture of your hand, Gave sign for me to leave you."

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"I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field."

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"O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified."

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"So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!"

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"A plague o' both your houses!"

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"How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!"

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"Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe."

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"No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger."

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"The strength Of twenty men."

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"Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty."

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"I 'll example you with thievery: The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon 's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth 's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing 's a thief."

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"The courageous captain of complements."

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"Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!"

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"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy."

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"Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything."

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"A word and a blow."

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"Villain and he be many miles asunder."

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"One, two, and the third in your bosom."

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"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."

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"Rom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will."

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"That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war."

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"Are not within the leaf of pity writ."

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"Enough, with over-measure."

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"Sooth. Ay, Cæsar; but not gone."

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"Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."

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"Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"

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"The king's name is a tower of strength."

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"Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again."

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"You were ever good at sudden commendations."

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"I have had my labour for my travail."

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"True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy."

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"A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her."

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"My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne."

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"The mirror of all courtesy."

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"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."

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"A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience."

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"When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun."

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"As is the bud bit with an envious worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun."

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