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"Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee."
Venice Preserved. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"And die with decency."
Venice Preserved. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was 't betrayed the Capitol?--A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world?--A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes?--Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!"
The Orphan. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"Let us embrace, and from this very moment, vow an eternal misery together."
The Orphan. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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"I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation."
Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc.
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"Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk!"
Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace, That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him."
Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war."
Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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"'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way."
Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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"Man, false man, smiling, destructive man!"
Theodosius. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone. But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong,-- Like angels' visits, short and bright; Mortality 's too weak to bear them long."
The Parting.
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"A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket."
The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. li. Page 324.
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"Pity 's akin to love."
Oroonoka. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man."
Sir Anthony Love. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"The better day, the worse deed."
Commentaries. Genesis iii.
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"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep."
Commentaries. Genesis iii.
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"So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar."
Commentaries. Job iii.
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"To their own second thoughts."
Commentaries. Job vi.
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"He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel."
Commentaries. Psalm xxxvi.
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"Our creature comforts."
Commentaries. Psalm xxxvii.
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"None so deaf as those that will not hear."
Commentaries. Psalm lviii.
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"They that die by famine die by inches."
Commentaries. Psalm lix.
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"To fish in troubled waters."
Commentaries. Psalm lx.
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"Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life."
Commentaries. Psalm civ.
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"Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves."
Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii.
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"It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.""
Commentaries. Isaiah xxx.
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"Blushing is the colour of virtue."
Commentaries. Jeremiah iii.
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"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church."
Commentaries. Jeremiah vii.
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"None so blind as those that will not see."
Commentaries. Jeremiah xx.
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"Not lost, but gone before."
Commentaries. Matthew ii.
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"Those that are above business."
Commentaries. Matthew xx.
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"Saying and doing are two things."
Commentaries. Matthew xxi.
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"Judas had given them the slip."
Commentaries. Matthew xxii.
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"After a storm comes a calm."
Commentaries. Acts ix.
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"Men of polite learning and a liberal education."
Commentaries. Acts x.
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"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true."
Commentaries. Timothy i.
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"It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with."
Commentaries. Timothy iii.
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"It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself."
Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90.
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""Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like."
Declaration of Rights.
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"The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms."
Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692).
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"God save our gracious king! Long live our noble king! God save the king!"
God save the King.
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"Aldeborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?"
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"His cogitative faculties immersed In cogibundity of cogitation."
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous, In sweet vociferation out-vociferize Even sound itself."
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded."
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!""
Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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"Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free."
The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"What a monstrous tail our cat has got!"
The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Of all the girls that are so smart, There 's none like pretty Sally."
Sally in our Alley.
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"Of all the days that 's in the week I dearly love but one day, And that 's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday."
Sally in our Alley.
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