William Shakespeare

I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
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I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:
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Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:
As, painfully to pore upon a book,
To seek the light of truth, which truth the while
Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow,
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow,
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks.

What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?

What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?