"Order gave each thing view."

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"To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures."

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"After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith."

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"Here 's that which is too weak to be a sinner,--honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire."

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"Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations."

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"O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!"

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"The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him."

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"Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!"

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"Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps."

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"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."

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"The god of my idolatry."

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"Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol."

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"I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels."

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"As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather."

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"'T is a cruelty To load a falling man."

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"Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."

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"These things are beyond all use, And I do fear them."

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"And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air."

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"But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind."

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"Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy."

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"Jul. O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."

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"He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer."

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"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

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"Mer. No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 't is enough, 't will serve."

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"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

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"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!"

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"An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him a little earth for charity!"

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"I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more."

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"I come not To hear such flattery now, and in my presence."

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"A dish fit for the gods."

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"Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute "shall"?"

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"Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst."

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"The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom."

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"Gregory, remember thy swashing blow."

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"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk."

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"Well, honour is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself."

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"He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace."

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"You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart."

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"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords."

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"A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month."

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"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."

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"Conjure with 'em,-- Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar. Now, in the names of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Cæsar feed, That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!"

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"Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple."

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"A thing devised by the enemy."

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"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

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"Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing."

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"'T is but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through."

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"Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection."

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"The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it."

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"Beware the ides of March."

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