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Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth. - [Affection] He is a noble gentleman; withal Happy in 's endeavours: the gen'ral voice Sounds him for courtesy, behavior, language, And ev'ry fair demeanour, an example: Titles of honour add not to his worth; Who is himself an honour to his title. - [Gentlemen] Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart. - [Imprisonment] Oh, happy kings, Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts. - [Kings] There is a place in a black and hollow vault, Where day is never seen; there shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires; A lightless sulphur, chok'd with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness; in this place Dwell many thousand thousand sundry sorts Of never dying deaths; there damn'd souls Roar without pity; there are gluttons fed With toads and adders; there is burning oil Pour'd down the drunkard's throat; the usurer Is forc'd to sup whole draughts of molten gold; There is the murderer forever stabb'd, Yet can he never die; there lies the wanton On racks of burning steel, while in his soul He feels the torment of his raging lust; There stand those wretched things, Who have dream'd out whole years in lawless sheets, And secret incests, cursing one another. - [Hell] The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures. - The Broken Heart (act II, sc. 2, l. 102) [Matrimony] Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. - The Fancies Chaste and Noble (act I, sc. 3) [Tailors] A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance. - The Fancies Chaste and Noble (act I, sc. 3, l. 82) [Matrimony] Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles. - The Lady's Trial (act I, sc. 3, l. 30) [Honor] Diamonds cut diamonds. - The Lover's Melancholy (act I, sc. 3) [Proverbial Phrases] Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. - The Lover's Melancholy (act III, sc. 1, l. 107) [Melancholy] Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease. - The Lover's Melancholy (act III, sc. 1, l. 111) [Melancholy] Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. - The Lover's Melancholy (act iii, sc. 3, l. 105) [Love]
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