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Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.

— Thomas Dekker

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This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

The Honest Whore (1604)

And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.

Old Fortunatus (1599)

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

The Honest Whore (1604)

There's no music when a woman is in the concert.

The Honest Whore (1604)

To add to golden numbers golden numbers.

Patient Grissell (1599)

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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