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Better it is to die, better to starve, than crave the hire which first we do deserve.-COR. II., 3.

Be that you seem, truly, your country's friend, and temperately proceed to what you would thus violently redress.-MEN. III., 1.

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Carry with us ears and eyes for the time, but hearts for the event.-BRU. II., 1.

Cold ways, that seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous where the disease is violent.-BRU. III., 1.

Chaste as the icicle, that's curded by the frost from purest snow, and hangs on Dian's temple.-COR. V., 3.

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Do not cry, havoc, where you should but hunt with modest warrant.-MEN. III., 1.

Determine on some course, more than a wild exposture to each chance that starts i' the way before thee. -VOL. IV., 1.

Desire not to allay my rages

colder reasons.—COR. V., 3.

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Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart a root of ancient envy.-Auf. IV., 5.

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Fall down, and kneel the way into his mercy.MEN. V., 1.

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He that trusts you, where he should find you lions, finds you hares; where foxes, geese.-MAR. I., 1.

He that depends upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, and hews down oaks with rushes.-MAR. I., 1.

He is a lion that I am proud to hunt.-MAR. I., 1.

He that has but effected his good will, hath overta'en mine act.-MAR. I., 9.

Holding them, in human action and capacity, of no more soul, nor fitness for the world, than camels in their war; who have their provand only for bearing burdens, and sore blows for sinking under them.BRU. II., 1.

Had you tongues, to cry against the rectorship of judgment?-BRU. II., 3.

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth: what his breast forges, that his tongue must vent.MEN. III., 1.

Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, i' the war do grow together.-VOL. III., 2.

He leads them like a thing made by some other deity than nature, that shapes man better.-Coм. IV., 6.

His injury the gaoler to his pity.-COм. V., 1.

He that hath a will to die by himself, fears it not from another.-MEN. V., 2.

He is the rock, the oak not to be wind-shaken.— 2 GUARD, V., 2.

He wants nothing of a god, but eternity, and a heaven to throne in.-MEN. V., 4.

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I sin in envying his nobility.-MAR. I., 1.

I have lived to see inherited my very wishes, and the buildings of my fancy.-VOL. II., 1.

It is held, that valour is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver: if it be, the man I speak of cannot in the world be singly counterpois'd.-Coм. II., 2.

Ingratitude is monstrous: and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude. -3 CIT. II., 3.

If all our wits were to issue out of one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south; and their consent of one direct way should be at once to all points o' the compass.-3 CIT. II., 3.

I would have had you put your power well on, before had worn it out.-VOL. III., 2.

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I talk of that, that know it.-BRU. III., 3.

I would not buy their mercy at the price of one fair word; nor check my courage for what they can give, to have 't with saying, Good morrow.—COR. III., 3.

I shall be lov'd, when I am lack'd.-COR. IV., 1.

I minded him, how royal 'twas to pardon when it was less expected.-Coм. V., 1.

I'll watch him till he be dieted to my request, and then I'll set upon him.-MEN. V., 1.

I have been the book of his good acts, whence men have read his fame unparallel'd, haply, amplified.— MEN. V.,

2.

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Let deeds express what's like to be their words.COR. III., 1.

Let them accuse me by invention, I will answer in mine honour.-COR. III., 2.

Leave this faint puling, and lament as I do, in anger, Juno-like.-VOL. IV., 2.

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My caution was more pertinent, than the rebuke you give it.-BRU. II., 2.

Manhood is called foolery, when it stands against a falling fabric.-COM. III., 1.

Mother, where is your ancient courage? you were

us'd to say, extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; that, when the sea was calm, all boats alike shew'd mastership in floating fortune's blows, when most struck home, being gentle wounded, crave a noble cunning.-COR. IV., 1.

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My mother bows; as if Olympus to a molehill should in supplication nod.-COR. V., 3.

Murd'ring impossibility, to make what cannot be, slight work. COR. V., 3.

My pretext to strike at him admits a good construction.-AUF. V., 5.

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Nor did you think it folly, to keep your great pretences veil'd, till when they needs must shew themselves.-AUF. I., 2.

Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight with hearts more proof than shields.—MAR. I., 4.

Now the fair goddess, Fortune, fall deep in love with thee.-LART. I., 5.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.-SIC. 1.

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Never shame to hear what you have nobly done.1 SEN. II., 2.

Not having the power to do the good it would, for the ill which doth control it.-COR. III., 1.

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