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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

King Henry IV., Part 2d -- IV. 2.

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I will use the olive with my sword:

Make war breed peace; make peace stint war; make each

Prescribe to other, as each other's leech.

Timon of Athens -- V. 5.

I know myself now; and I feel within me

A peace above all earthly dignities,

A still and quiet conscience.

King Henry VIII. -- III. 2.

PENITENCE.

Who by repentance is not satisfied,

Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleased;

By penitence the Eternal's wrath appeased.

Two Gentlemen of Verona -- V. 4.

PLAYERS.

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts.

As You Like It -- II. 7.

There be players, that I have seen play,--

and heard others praise, and that highly,--

not to speak it profanely, that,

neither having the accent of Christians,

nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man,

have so strutted, and bellowed,

that I have thought some of nature's journeymen

had made men and not made them well,

they imitated humanity so abominably.

Hamlet -- III. 2.

POMP.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?

And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

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