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

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Confess yourself to heaven;

Repent what 's past; avoid what is to come.

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,

Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Refrain to-night,

And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence: the next more easy;