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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

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I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.

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They say miracles are past.

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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

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O! What a noble mind is here o'erthrown.

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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

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The will of man is by his reason swayed.

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

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He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

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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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For my part, it was Greek to me.

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And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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