The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

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Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her...

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her...

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of...

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of...

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without...

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without...

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the...

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the...

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much...

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much...

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness.

When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness.

Fight till the last gasp.

Fight till the last gasp.

Parting is such a sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

Parting is such a sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day,...

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day,...