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If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at IV, i)
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It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Friar Francis at IV, i)
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I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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Preferment goes by letter and affection.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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'Tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,
For daws to peck at.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Brabantio at I, iii)
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She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her for having pitied them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
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But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
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How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir,
of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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Give me the ocular proof.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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He that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that, which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough;
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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The shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing.
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at IV, i)
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They laugh that win!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at IV, i)
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'Tis neither here nor there.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Emilia at IV, iii)
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I kissed thee, ere I killed thee.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at V, ii)
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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Great king,
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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Tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Cleon at I, iv)
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Cleon at I, iv)
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One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio at I, ii)
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Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio at I, ii)
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Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio & Romeo & Mercutio at I, iv)
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Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at I, v)
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And what love can do, that does love attempt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii)
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At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii)
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I would have thee gone,
And yet no further than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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What's in a name?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good cloth give.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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