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Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,
Two may keep counsel, putting one away?
Topic: Secrecy
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse at II, iv)
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O Hamlet, speak no more.
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.
Topic: Self-examination
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at III, iv)
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Because authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself
That skins the vice o' th' top; go to your bosom,
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
That's like my brother's fault; if it confess
A natural guiltiness such as is his,
Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
Against my brother's life.
Topic: Self-examination
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Topic: Self-knowledge
Source: None
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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Topic: Self-respect
Source: None
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Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
Topic: Service
Source: As You Like It (Adam at II, iii)
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I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have
served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have
nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold,
he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with
beating.
Topic: Service
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Ephesus at IV, iv)
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O Cromwell, Cromwell,
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Topic: Service
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at IV, i)
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My heart is ever at your service, my lord.
Topic: Service
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Alcibiades at I, ii)
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The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your
lordship.
Topic: Service
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Second Friend at III, vi)
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We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
Cannot be truly followed.
Topic: Service
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love
Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.
Topic: Service
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at IV, ii)
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Come like shadows, so depart!
Topic: Shadows
Source: Macbeth (Witches at IV, i)
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Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.
Topic: Shadows
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Arragon at II, ix)
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The birds chaunt melody on every bush,
The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,
The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,
And make a checkered shadow on the ground;
Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,
And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,
Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,
As if a double hunt were heard at once,
Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;
And after conflict such as was supposed
The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,
When with a happy storm they were surprised,
And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,
We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,
Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,
Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
Be unto us as is a nurse's song
Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.
Topic: Shadows
Source: Titus Andronicus (Tamora at II, iii)
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By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.
Topic: Shadows
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Mine host of the Garter. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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“Convey,” the wise it call. “Steal!” foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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We burn daylight. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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There 's the humour of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: None
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