"Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness."

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"Necessity's sharp pinch!"

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"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again."

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"She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud."

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"To beguile many, and be beguil'd by one."

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"King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear,-- With that he called the tailor lown."

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"Do not drop in for an after-loss. Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purpos'd overthrow."

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"The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air."

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"Nature 's above art in that respect."

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"Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers."

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"The game is up."

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"When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

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"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste."

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"Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard."

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"O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell! Othello's occupation 's gone!"

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"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"

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"1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones."

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"Out-paramoured the Turk."

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"The bookish theoric."

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"Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips."

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"Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire."

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"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing."

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"I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning."

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"'T was merry when You wager'd on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up."

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"'T is a naughty night to swim in."

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"Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?"

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"A morsel for a monarch."

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"Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer."

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"But, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at!"

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"If there be, or ever were, one such, It 's past the size of dreaming."

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"Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow, Thy element 's below."

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"How poor are they that have not patience!"

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"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd."

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"Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion."

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"I am declined Into the vale of years."

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"I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness."

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"Give me to drink mandragora."

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"That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water."

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"Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle From her propriety."

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"Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for boys."

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"The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida."

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"Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear."

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"Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge Had stomach for them all."

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"And put My clouted brogues from off my feet."

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"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us."

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"The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down."

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"That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows."

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"Some griefs are medicinable."

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"Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires."

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"Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead; You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen-- Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men."

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