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A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. - [Mediocrity] Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow. - [Parting] Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities. - [Worth] It is expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. - [Anticipation] Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. - [Joy] Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. - [Opportunity] Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! - [Guilt] The prince of darkness is a gentleman. - [Devil] Thou dwarf dressed up in giant's clothes, that showest far off still greater than thou art. - [Danger] Your gift is princely, but it comes too late, And falls like sunbeams on a blasted blossom. - [Delay] Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison; (Who sees them is undone); For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Cath'rine pear, (The side that's next the Sun). - A Ballad Upon a Wedding (st. 10) [Face] He lips were red, and one was thin, Compared to that was next her chin. (Some bee had stung it newly.) - A Ballad Upon a Wedding (st. 11) [Mouth] But O, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day, Is half so fine a sight. - A Ballad Upon a Wedding (st. 8) [Dancing] 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. - Against Fruition [Expectation] But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments. - Aglaura (epilogue) [Judgment] Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. - Ballad Upon a Wedding (st. 8) [Feet] She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant too, to think on. - Brennoralt (act II, sc. 1) [Women] Her face is like the Milky Way i' the sky,-- A meeting of gentle lights without a name. - Brennoralt (act III) [Face] Out upon it! I have lov'd Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. - Constancy [Constancy] A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass. - Goblins (act III) [Toasts] Why so pale and wan. fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? - Song (st. 1) [Love] High characters (cries one), and he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be. - The Goblin's Epilogue [Character] Nick of Time! - The Goblins (act V) [Time]
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