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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
When the age is in, the wit is out.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other [side].
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!
There's small choice in rotten apples.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
Thus conscience does makes cowards of us all.
Courage mounteth with occasion.
But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance.
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