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What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
I must be cruel only to be kind.
I must be cruel only to be kind.
Who's to look after the keepers?
Who's to look after the keepers?
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
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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.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought
to be interposed.
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought
to be interposed.