It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

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It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

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...

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night

To do a great right do a little wrong.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that...

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that...

The earth has music for those who listen.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Speak me fair in death.

Speak me fair in death.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of...

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of...

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows

Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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.

In delay there lies no plenty.

In delay there lies no plenty.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea...

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea...

Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor,...

Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor,...

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment