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Quiet night that brings
Rest to the labourer, is the outlaw's day,
In which he rises early to do wrong,
And when his work is ended, dares not sleep.

— Philip Massinger The Guardian (1633)

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Be wise;
Soar not too high, to fall; but stoop to rise.

Duke of Milan (1623)

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

A Very Woman (1619)

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth
Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Great Duke of Florence (1627)

Out, you impostors!
Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.

Virgin Martyr (1622)

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