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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.
Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.
Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.
O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!
They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
We cannot all be masters.
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Things past redress are now with me past care
Things past redress are now with me past care
A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.