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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

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How well he's read, to reason against reading!

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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

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Listen to many, speak to a few.

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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

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Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

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An overflow of good converts to bad.

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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

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Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

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