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• The world knows nothing of its greatest men. -- Sir Henry Taylor (1800-?
  ) -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part i, Act i, Sc. 5...
• An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine.
  -- Sir Henry Taylor (1800-?) -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part i, Act i, Sc. 5...
• Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.
  -- Sir Henry Taylor (1800-?) -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part i, Act i, Sc. 7...
• He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that.
  'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them....
• When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model
  And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection....
• First Play. We have reformed that indifferently with us, sir.
  Ham. O, reform it altogether. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. -- Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) -- The Honest Whore, Part ii, Act i, Sc.
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• Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
  Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings....
• We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Twelfth Night -- Act i, Sc.
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