"Join not with grief, fair woman, do..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,To make my end too sudden.
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“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”
“Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief”
“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”
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