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Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!
Topic: Horses
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Topic: Horses
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iv)
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Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long,
Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide,
High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:
Look what a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Topic: Horses
Source: Venus and Adonis (l. 295)
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My master is of churlish disposition
And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality.
Topic: Hospitality
Source: As You Like It (Corin at II, iv)
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I am your host.
With robber's hands in my hospitable favors
You should not ruffle thus.
Topic: Hospitality
Source: King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii)
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Be it not in thy care. Go,
I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide
Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.
Topic: Hospitality
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, iv)
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Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Topic: Hospitality
Source: None
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My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind:
So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung
With ears that sweep away the morning dew;
Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;
Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,
Each under each.
Topic: Hounds
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at IV, i)
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Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh.
And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.
By'r Lady, he is a good musician.
Topic: Humor
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at III, i)
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There's the humour of it.
Topic: Humor
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (I, i), inserted by Theobald from the quarto
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They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs--
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds
They vented their complainings, which being answered
And a petition granted them, a strange one,
To break the heart of generosity,
And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,
Shouting their emulation.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Coriolanus (Marcius at I, i)
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Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, vi)
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar at I, ii)
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With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii)
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We are oft to blame in this,
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
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Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:
How in my words somever she be shent,
To give them seals never, my soul, consent!
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii)
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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue
That, his apparent open guilt omitted--
I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife--
He lived from all attainder of suspects.
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at III, v)
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Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
Topic: Idleness
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at I, i)
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In my mind's eye, Horatio.
Topic: Imagination
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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I'll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
As is a man were author of himself
And knew no other kin.
Topic: Independence
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
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If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate.
Topic: Independence
Source: Macbeth (Banquo at I, iii)
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: As You Like It (Amiens at II, vii)
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Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful
were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being
members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: Coriolanus (Third Citizen at II, ii)
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This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms,
Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart;
And in his mantle muffling up his face,
Even at the base of Pompey's statue
(Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell.
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: King Lear (King Lear at I, iv)
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All the stored vengeances of heaven fall
On her ingrateful top!
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at IV, i)
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I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at III, iv)
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For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon.
Topic: Injury
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
Topic: Innocence
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at II, ii)
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Hence, bashful cunning,
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
Topic: Innocence
Source: The Tempest (Miranda at III, i)
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We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did.
Topic: Innocence
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
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But thus: if powers divine
Behold our human actions, as they do,
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush and tyranny
Tremble at patience.
Topic: Innocence
Source: The Winter's Tale (Hermione at III, ii)
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The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.
Topic: Innocence
Source: None
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Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket
picked?
Topic: Inns
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at III, iii)
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The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn, and near approaches
The subject of our watch.
Topic: Inns
Source: Macbeth (First Murderer at III, iii)
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Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.
Topic: Insanity
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Topic: Insanity
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
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It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Topic: Insanity
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, i)
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We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
Topic: Insanity
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
Topic: Instinct
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at II, iv)
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O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable
deal of sack!
Topic: Intemperance
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at II, iv)
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(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame!
(Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name.
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (King Ferdinand & Berowne at IV, iii)
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Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny. It hath been
Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne
And fall of many kings.
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Macbeth (Macduff at IV, iii)
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In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,
Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,
Upon malicious knavery does thou come
To start my quiet.
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Brabantio at I, i)
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I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel,
but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in
their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with
joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into
beasts!
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
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I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a
drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would
stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and
presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest,
and the ingredient is a devil.
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
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