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- I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Deep is a wounded heart, and strong
A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light. - Felicia Hermans
- I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. - Hartley Coleridge
- Tis the witching hour of night,
Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they? - John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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