Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Shakespeare, William
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
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As in a theatre, the eyes of m
theatre acting eyes
action thought act great
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
philosophy adversity sweet milk
Sweet are the uses of adversit
adversity sweet
'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.
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Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
ambition water
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad
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Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.
ambition
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
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Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
beauty honesty sugar
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
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O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.
death
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