When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.
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Commend me to your honourable wife;Tell her the process of Antonio's end;
Say how I lov'd you; speak me fair in death;
And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge
Whether Bassanio had not once a love.
William Shakespeare
So is he mine, and in such bloody distance
That every minute of his being thrusts
Against my near'st of life; and though I could
With barefaced power sweep him from my sight
And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,
For certain friends that are both his and mine,
Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall
Who I myself struck down.
William Shakespeare
Come, I know thou lovest me; and at night, when you come into
your closet, you'll question this gentlewoman about me; and I
know, Kate, you will to her dispraise those parts in me that you
love with your heart.
William Shakespeare
No, nor nowhere else but in your brain.
William Shakespeare
And it is great; To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change.
William Shakespeare
But what thou art, God, thou, and I, do know;
And all too soon, I fear, the King shall rue.
William Shakespeare
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