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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.
I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.
O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.
I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.
Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.
For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.
I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.
This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.
Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?