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“Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.”
Language Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (First Gentleman at V, ii)
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“I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!”
Oracle Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
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“O my prophetic soul!
My uncle?”
Prophecy (prophesy) Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v)
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“There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured.”
Prophecy (prophesy) Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Warwick at III, i)
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“O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level. and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea!”
Revolution Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at III, i)
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“Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
Civil dissension is a viperous worm
That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.”
Dissension Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (King Henry at III, i)
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“If they perceive dissension in our looks
And that within ourselves we disagree,
How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
To willfull disobedience, and rebel!”
Dissension Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (King Henry at IV, i)
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“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
Beginnings Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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“Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
Beginnings Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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“To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.”
Beginnings Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (prologue at V, i)
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“O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
With pity that doth make me sick.”
Cause Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Iachimo at I, vi)
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“Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect--
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.”
Cause Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
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“Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them,
And God befriend us as our cause is just!”
Cause Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry at V, i)
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“Mine's not an idle cause.”
Cause Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Brabantio at I, ii)
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“All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown.
Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.”
End Quotes Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at IV, iv)
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“The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.”
End Quotes Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at IV, v)
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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.”
Ingratitude Quotes 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.”
Ingratitude Quotes 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.”
Ingratitude Quotes 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.”
Ingratitude Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at I, iv)
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“All the stored vengeances of heaven fall
On her ingrateful top!”
Ingratitude Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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“What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”
Ingratitude Quotes 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.”
Ingratitude Quotes Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at III, iv)
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“What if this cursed hand
Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at III, iii)
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“I pardon him as God shall pardon me.”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Henry at V, iii)
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