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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies.
Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies.
What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.
What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction read more
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the
snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied read more
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
