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I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washèd it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Edmund Spenser, Amoretti And Epithalamion
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There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
T.S. Eliot.
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
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Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Edmund Spenser
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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men