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“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most effect.”
Gain Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio at I, i)
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“I see, the jewel best enamelled
Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still
That others touch, and often touching will
Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.”
Gold Quotes Source: The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at II, i)
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“How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish overcareful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.
Their bones with industry.
For this they have engrossed and piled up
The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;
For this they have been thoughtful to invest
Their sons with arts and martial exercises.”
Gold Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at IV, v)
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“Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,
Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;
For I have bought it with an hundred blows.”
Gold Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Father at II, v)
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“(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter?
(Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
That she did give me, whose posy was
For all the world like cutler's poetry
Upon a knife--'Love me, and leave me not.'”
Gold Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia & Gratiano at V, i)
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“You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the
honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with
all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the
capitalist system lasts, vote for gold.”
Gold Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia & Gratiano at V, i)
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“What think you, if he were conveyed to bed,
Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,
A most delicious banquet by his bed,
And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
Would not the beggar then forget himself?”
Luxury Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Lord at induction, i)
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“Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”
Luxury Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Lord at induction, i)
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“Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch!
I am descended of a gentler blood.
Thou art no father nor friend of mine.”
Misers Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at V, iv)
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“There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a
penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make
it felony to drink small beer.”
Prosperity Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Jack Cade at IV, ii)
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“Besides, you know
Prosperity's the very bond of love,
Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
Affliction alters.”
Prosperity Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Camillo at IV, iv)
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“Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like
enough to consent.”
Holidays Quotes Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at IV, i)
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“If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.”
Holidays Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at I, ii)
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“Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.”
Holidays Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
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“You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,
Come hither from the furrow and be merry.
Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on,
And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
In country footing.”
Holidays Quotes Source: The Tempest (Iris at IV, i)
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“Stoop, boys. This gate
Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you
To a morning's holy office.”
Worship Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii)
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“Intend some fear;
Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit;
And look you get a prayer book in your hand
And stand between two churchmen, good my lord,
For on that ground I'll make a holy descant;
And be not easily won to our requests.”
Worship Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Henry the Third (Buckingham at III, iii)
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“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.”
Applause Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Marcius at I, i)
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“If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud you again.”
Applause Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at V, iii)
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“I'll privily away; I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes;
Though it do well, I do not relish well
Their loud applause and aves vehement,
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
That does not affect it.”
Applause Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at I, i)
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“Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-apparelled April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads, even such delight
Among fresh fennel buds shall you this night
Inherit at my house.”
April Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Capulet at I, ii)
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“From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him;
Yet nor the lays of birds, not the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odor and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.”
April Quotes Source: Sonnet XCVIII
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“Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep;
Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
Which spongy April at thy hest betrims
To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
Being lasslorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;
And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
Where thou thyself dost air--the queen o' th' sky,
Whose wat-ry arch and messenger am I,
Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,
Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain.
Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.”
April Quotes Source: The Tempest (Iris at IV, i)
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“Base is the slave that pays.”
Slavery Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Pistol at II, i)
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“Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have
Immortal longings in me.”
Desire Quotes Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at V, ii)
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