"Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth."

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"Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity 's the straightest."

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"As cold as cucumbers."

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"From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot."

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"One foot in the grave."

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"Calamity is man's true touchstone."

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"No better than you should be."

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"A soul as white as heaven."

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"There is a method in man's wickedness,-- It grows up by degrees."

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"Death hath so many doors to let out life."

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"There is no jesting with edge tools."

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"Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother."

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"The fit 's upon me now! Come quickly, gentle lady; The fit 's upon me now."

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"But they that are above Have ends in everything."

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"Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him."

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"It shew'd discretion, the best part of valour."

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"Whistle, and she'll come to you."

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"What 's one man's poison, signor, Is another's meat or drink."

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"Primrose, first-born child of Ver, Merry springtime's harbinger."

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"Though I say it that should not say it."

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"Beggars must be no choosers."

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"All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble."

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"O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people!"

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"Go to grass."

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"It would talk,-- Lord! how it talked!"

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"I name no parties."

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"He comes not in my books."

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"Kiss till the cow comes home."

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"One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime."

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"In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way."

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"Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die."

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"War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands."

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"Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink."

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"Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse,-- Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee."

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"It must be done like lightning."

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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I 'll not look for wine."

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"Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,-- Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart."

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"There shall be no love lost."

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"Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression."

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"Sweet swan of Avon!"

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"Marlowe's mighty line."

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"Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,--almighty gold."

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"Small Latin, and less Greek."

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"Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run."

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"That old bald cheater, Time."

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"It was a mighty while ago."

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"Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!"

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"What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?"

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"For a good poet 's made as well as born."

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"Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast."

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