Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
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In medias res.
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I cannot lose the only thing that keeps me alive: hope. A word that is often with us in the morning, gets wounded throughout the day, and dies at dusk, but resurrects with the dawn.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
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know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
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Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.
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There's daggers in men's smiles.
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