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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let...

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let...

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings

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

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

Time is the justice that examines all offenders.

Time is the justice that examines all offenders.

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone

For when we rage, advice is often seen By blunting us to make our wits...

For when we rage, advice is often seen By blunting us to make our wits...

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

There's no trust, no faith, no honesty, in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all nought,...

There's no trust, no faith, no honesty, in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all nought,...

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other And I will look on...

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other And I will look on...

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be...

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be...

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.