"Has this fellow no feeling of his business?"

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"Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither."

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"A politician, . . . one that would circumvent God."

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"The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."

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"Hor. It is a nipping and an eager air."

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"I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably."

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"One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens."

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"The green mantle of the standing pool."

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"And beauty, making beautiful old rhyme."

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"He hath a daily beauty in his life."

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"So slippery that The fear 's as bad as falling."

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"Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all."

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"O, never say hereafter But I am truest speaker. You call'd me brother When I was but your sister."

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"Still constant is a wondrous excellence."

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"O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fallen."

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"For I am nothing, if not critical."

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"Who does i' the wars more than his captain can Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain which darkens him."

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"Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words."

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"To be once in doubt Is once to be resolv'd."

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"Poor and content is rich and rich enough."

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"Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime."

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"Like stones of worth, they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet."

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"Some jay of Italy, Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him: Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion."

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"I understand a fury in your words, But not the words."

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"I swear 't is better to be much abused Than but to know 't a little."

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"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he 's not robb'd at all."

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"There 's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd."

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"He wears the rose Of youth upon him."

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"Let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!"

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"Men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike."

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"A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man."

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"Cas. Ay, past all surgery."

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"Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination."

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"Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice."

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"If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune."

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"The wealthy curled darlings of our nation."

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"It is no act of common passage, but A strain of rareness."

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"The prince of darkness is a gentleman."

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"To business that we love we rise betime, And go to 't with delight."

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"The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description."

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"Every puny whipster."

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"On horror's head horrors accumulate."

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"Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial."

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"And art made tongue-tied by authority."

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"I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus."

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"Des. O most lame and impotent conclusion!"

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"Like an arrow shot From a well-experienc'd archer hits the mark His eye doth level at."

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"Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve."

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"Every way makes my gain."

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"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?"

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