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Love is all in fire, and yet is ever freezing;
Love is much in winning, yet is more in leesing:
Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying;
Love is ever true, and yet is ever lying;
Love does doat in liking, and is mad in loathing;
Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing.

— Thomas Middleton

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From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.

The world's a stage on which all parts are played.

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Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?

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I never heard
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Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.

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