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 Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
 Man never is, but always to be blest.  
 Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
 Man never is, but always to be blest. 
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
 When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
 But in battalions: first, her father slain;
  Next, your read more 
 When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
 But in battalions: first, her father slain;
  Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
   Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
    Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
     For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
      In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
       Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
        Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
         Last, and as much containing as all these,
          Her brother is in secret come from France,
           Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
            And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
             With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
              Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
               Will nothing stick our person to arraign
                In ear and ear. 
True praise rootes and spreedes.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.
If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.
 The monarch drank that happy hour
 The sweetest, noblest draught of power.  
 The monarch drank that happy hour
 The sweetest, noblest draught of power. 
The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
When war is raging the laws are dumb.
When war is raging the laws are dumb.