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Quotes by Dramatist
"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
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"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
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"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
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"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"
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"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name."
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"All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable."
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"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
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"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
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"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
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"Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive."
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"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."
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"It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them."
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"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
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"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
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