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O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon
and please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

And die with decency.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

The poor sleep little.

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.