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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!--

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove; That is--more knave than fool.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodies birds sing madrigals.

Infinite riches in a little room.