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1  If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
2  Let your study Be to content your lord, who hath receiv'd you At fortune's alms.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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3  I know 'tis from Cordelia, Who hath most fortunately been inform'd Of my obscured course.'
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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4  For thee, oppressed King, I am cast down; Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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5  A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows; Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows, Am pregnant to good pity.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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6  To be worst, The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune, Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear: The lamentable change is from the best; The worst returns to laughter.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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7  One step I have advanc'd thee; if thou dost As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way To noble fortunes: know thou this, that men Are as the time is; to be tender-minded Does not become a sword.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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8  Sir, you have show'd today your valiant strain, And fortune led you well: you have the captives Who were the opposites of this day's strife: I do require them of you, so to use them As we shall find their merits and our safety May equally determine.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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