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Read between January 9 - January 12, 2023
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your mistrust cannot make me a traitor: Tell me whereon the likelihood depends. DUKE F. Thou art thy father’s daughter; there’s enough.
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Treason is not inherited, my lord; Or, if we did derive it from our friends, What’s that to me? my father was no traitor: Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much To think my poverty is treacherous.
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Alas, what danger will it be to us, Maids as we are, to travel forth so far! Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head:37 And this our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in every thing. I would not change it.
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the thorny point Of bare distress hath ta’en from me the show Of smooth civility: yet am I inland77 bred And know some nurture.
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What would you have? Your gentleness shall force, More than your force move us to gentleness.
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Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in. JAQ. All the world’s a stage,79 And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts,
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly.   Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That does not bite so nigh As benefits forgot: Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember’d not. Heigh-ho! sing, &c.
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can one desire too much of a good thing?
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men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!