Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Like a man to double business bound,

I stand in pause where I shall first begin,

And both neglect.

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

'T is not so above;

There is no shuffling, there the action lies

In his true nature.

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,

Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay!