When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.


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The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
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Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
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You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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The rational hind Costard. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.
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Dictynna, goodman Dull. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v....
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Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.
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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ...
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In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost....
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Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!
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Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
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Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.
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These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon t...
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Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild wave...
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As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice ...
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By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.
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I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
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To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2.
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The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.
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His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2.
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It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.
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Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
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If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. -King Henry ...
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A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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A high hope for a low heaven. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
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The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act ...
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add...
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies wh...
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A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Lab...
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He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hat...
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There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
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Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 5.
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This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed...
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Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.
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The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
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Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour ...
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A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. -Love's Lab...
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I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2.
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For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.
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Whose words all ears took captive. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.
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Each day before the end of eve
she sought her lover, nor would him leave,
until the stars ...
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Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ...
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All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
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... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you wit...
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And then to breakfast with What appetite you have. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue? Does aught...
JOHN BYROM
To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
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The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.
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Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. -Cor...
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
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For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...
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As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him t...
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...
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Don't be celebrities, because then you go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, You don't want that, do you?
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A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's La...
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The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, ...
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The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
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All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc...
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We will answer all things faithfully. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
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A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Tam...
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...
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Fill all thy bones with aches. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.
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Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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Charm ache with air, and agony with words. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
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From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the...
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Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband. -The Taming of th...
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Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.

Shakespeare...
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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...
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What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
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Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights bol...
JEANNETTE WALLS
Mocking the air with colours idly spread. -King John. Act v. Sc. 1.
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Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel. -Much Ado about Not...
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I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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what ho, apothecary!
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Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
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At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more ri...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc....
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Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWN
I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
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With bag and baggage. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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Whi...
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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be...
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
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God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
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To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
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All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
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Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
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The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
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Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
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Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
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Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
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A little more than kin, and less than kind!
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
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I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
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Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
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My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
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For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
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Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
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How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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