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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at III, v)
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The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at IV, i)
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Confusion's cure lives not
In these confusions.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at IV, v)
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My poverty, but not my will consents.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Apothecary at V, i)
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O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at V, iii)
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Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Sonnet XXXV
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No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most effect.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio at I, i)
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Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at II, i)
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As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Katharina at IV, iii)
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tempest (Gonzalo at I, i)
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be
done, but I would fain die a dry death.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tempest (Gonzalo at I, i)
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But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
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I will be correspondent to command.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tempest (Ariel at I, ii)
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Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
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The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
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You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tempest (Gonzalo at II, i)
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Leave not a rack behind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at IV, i)
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Titus Andronicus (Tamora at I, i)
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Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,
And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Titus Andronicus (Chiron at II, i)
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Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Titus Andronicus (Marcus at II, iv)
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Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Titus Andronicus (Tamora at IV, iv)
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The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Titus Andronicus (Tamora at IV, iv)
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The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby,
Knowing that with the shadow of his wings
He can at pleasure stint their melody:
Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Titus Andronicus (Tamora at IV, iv)
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All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at I, iii)
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For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man, that mocks at it, and sets it light.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (John of Gaunt at I, iii)
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For violent fires soon burn out themselves.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;
His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at II, i)
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The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;
His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at II, i)
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And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Northumberland at II, iii)
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Death will have his day.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at III, ii)
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Wise men ne'er wail their present woes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Carlisle at III, ii)
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For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at III, iii)
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And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Gloucester at I, iii)
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Talkers are no good doers.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (First Murderer at I, iii)
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They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Queen Margaret at I, iii)
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They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Queen Margaret at I, iii)
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Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Duchess of York at II, ii)
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When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Third Citizen at II, iii)
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When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Third Citizen at II, iii)
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God keep me from false friends!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Prince Edward at III, i)
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Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Stanldy at IV, i)
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An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Queen Elizabeth at IV, iv)
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Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, iv)
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