"Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie."

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"He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost."

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"Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there."

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"Every room Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy."

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"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

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"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain."

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"For you and I are past our dancing days."

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"This bold bad man."

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"I do remember an apothecary,-- And hereabouts he dwells."

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"The world is not thy friend nor the world's law."

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"Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat."

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"A beggarly account of empty boxes."

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"A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't."

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"Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber: Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound."

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"Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers."

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"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear."

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"A load would sink a navy."

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"The damned use that word in hell."

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"Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's anointed."

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"Cor. Under the canopy."

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"Press not a falling man too far!"

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"For stony limits cannot hold love out."

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"I am the very pink of courtesy."

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"They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin."

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""Darest thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow."

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"Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him."

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"O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!"

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"The weakest goes to the wall."

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"Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing."

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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."

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"For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase."

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"How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!"

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"Life's uncertain voyage."

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"Immortal gods, I crave no pelf; I pray for no man but myself; Grant I may never prove so fond, To trust man on his oath or bond."

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"The choice and master spirits of this age."

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"Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely."

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"Though last, not least in love."

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"The eagle suffers little birds to sing."

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"Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein."

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"All these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come."

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"He was a man Of an unbounded stomach."

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"The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn."

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"Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour."

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"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."

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"Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it."

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"What 's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."

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"There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king."

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"They are too thin and bare to hide offences."

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"I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices."

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"The live-long day."

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