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By many a happy accident.
Topic: Accident
Source: No Wit, no Help, like a Women's (act IV, sc. 1)
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My nearest
And dearest enemy.
Topic: Enemies
Source: Anything for a Quiet Life (act V, sc. 1)
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There's no hate lost between us.
Topic: Hatred
Source: The Witch (act IV, sc. 3)
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Anything for a quiet life.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: title of a play
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Hold their nose to the grindstone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Blurt, Master Constable (act III, sc. 3)
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Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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I have been a soldier,
Till the helm hath worn those aged temples bare.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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The less of this cold world the more of heaven.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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All was false and hollow, though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear
The better reason.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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And with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
The balm of life.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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How fallen, how changed
From him, who, in the happy realms of light,
Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads, though bright.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Laughter holding both his sides.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Let no man seek
Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall
Him or his children.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Two other precious drops that ready stood,
Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell
Kiss'd.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Two other tender drops, which ready stood,
Each in their crystal sluice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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