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King Lear (1608)
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This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.
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They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.
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Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.
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Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.
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Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
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This is some fellow,
Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
A saucy roughness and constrains the garb
Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!
An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!
And they will take it so; if not he's plain.
These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,
Than twenty silly, ducking observants,
That stretch their duty nicely.
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What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows?
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Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
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No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.
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Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
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Direct not him whose way himself will choose;
'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.
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For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
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Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There's scarce a bush.
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Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
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We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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