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Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Which means she to deceive, father or mother?
My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.
Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.
A politician... one that would circumvent God.
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.
To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.
Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
How poor are they that have have not patients.
Nature does require her times of preservation.
There's nothing in this world can make me joy.
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.
They love least that let men know their loves.
Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.
Love that well which thou must leave ere long.
A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies.
You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.
At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.