Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Quotes from Cymbeline — William Shakespeare
1564–1616 England
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Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.
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How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!
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When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.
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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too.
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I am advised to give her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate.
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They are not constant but are changing still.
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Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.
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He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache.
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O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her
And be her sense but as a monument.
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Is there no way for men to be, but women
Must be half-workers?
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To lapse in fulness
Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood
Is worse in kings than beggars.
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If it be summer news,
Smile to 't before: if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that countenance still.
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Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
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That we two are asunder; let that grieve him;
Some griefs are medicinable.
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Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate, to pray they have their will.
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But clay and clay differs in dignity,
Whose dust is both alike.
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They are as gentle
As zephyrs blowing below the violet.
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Mean and mighty, rotting
Together, have one dust.
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