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For thou hast given me in this beauteous face
A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at I, i)
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Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at I, i)
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(Cloten:) Thou villain base,
Know'st me not by my clothes?
(Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes,
Which, as it seems, make thee.
Topic: Tailors
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten & Guiderius at IV, ii)
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(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man?
(Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not
have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th'
trade.
Topic: Tailors
Source: King Lear (Cornwall & Kent at II, ii)
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Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't.
O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?
What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.
What, up and down carved like an apple tart?
Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
Like to a censer in a barber's shop.
Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?
Topic: Tailors
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy
tidings.
Topic: Talk
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at III, ii)
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What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?
Topic: Talk
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Austria at II, i)
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If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.
Topic: Talk
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iv)
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The red wine first must rise
In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em
Talk us to silence.
Topic: Talk
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iv)
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No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;
Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
I shall digest it.
Topic: Talk
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo at III, v)
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Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!
Topic: Talk
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at IV, i)
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Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Topic: Tardiness
Source: None
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Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace.
Leave gormandizing.
Topic: Temperance
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at V, v)
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Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only
Which your disease requires.
Topic: Temperance
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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But something may be done that we will not;
And sometimes we are devils to ourselves
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
Presuming on their changeful potency.
Topic: Temptation
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Troilus at IV, iv)
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Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
Topic: Temptation
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at III, iii)
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!
Topic: Temptation
Source: The Life and Death of King John (King John at IV, ii)
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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
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O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
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It is a creature
That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague
To beguile many and be beguiled by one.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at IV, i)
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Tempt not a desperate man.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, iii)
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Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?
Topic: Temptation
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that
are bad for me do not tempt me.
Topic: Temptation
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as
the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a
surer measure.
Topic: Temptation
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful.
Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give
As one near death to those that wish him live.
Topic: Thankfulness
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at II, i)
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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
Topic: Thankfulness
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at II, i)
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Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,
With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,
Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt, that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
Topic: Thankfulness
Source: King Lear (King Lear at I, iv)
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O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name!
The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.
Topic: Thieving
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Ephesus at III, i)
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A murderer and a villain,
A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole
And put it in his pocket--
Topic: Thieving
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm,
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.
Topic: Thieving
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
Topic: Thieving
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, ii)
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Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't,
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n
From gen'ral excrement.
Topic: Thieving
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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Yet thanks I must you con
That you are thieves professed, that you work not
In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft
In limited professions.
Topic: Thieving
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief,
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
Topic: Thieving
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Duke of Venice at I, iii)
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He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.
Topic: Thieving
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello 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: Thieving
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault
Assemble all the poor men of your sort;
Draw them to the Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
Topic: Tiber River
Source: Julius Caesar (Flavius at I, i)
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Give me the cups,
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.'
Topic: Toasts
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at V, ii)
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Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing.
Topic: Tongue
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Lavatch at II, iv)
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree
That shall civil sayings show. . . .
Topic: Tongue
Source: As You Like It (Celia at III, ii)
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I cannot, nor I will not hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
Topic: Tongue
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at IV, ii)
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You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
Topic: Tongue
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at V, iii)
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So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .
Topic: Tongue
Source: A Lover's Complaint (l. 120)
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The language I have learnt these forty years,
My native English, now I must forgo;
And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
Or like a cunning instrument cased up
Or, being open, put into his hands
That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Topic: Tongue
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Mowbray at I, iii)
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All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits,
Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;
And now the happy season once more fits
That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;
For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong
When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.
Topic: Tongue
Source: Venus and Adonis (l. 325)
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Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.
Topic: Treachery
Source: Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar at III, i)
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To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master
And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.
Topic: Treachery
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Plantagenet, Duke of York at V, vii)
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Thou know'st, great son,
The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,
That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name
Whose repetition will be dogged with curses,
Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,
But with his last attempt he wiped it out,
Destroyed his country; and his name remains
To th' ensuing age abhorred,' Speak to me son.
Thou hast affected the fine strains of honor,
To imitate the graces of the gods;
To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' th' air,
And yet to change thy sulphur with a bolt
That should rive an oak.
Topic: Treason
Source: Coriolanus (Volumnia at V, iii)
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Though those that are betrayed
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Stands in worse case of woe.
Topic: Treason
Source: Cymbeline (Imogen at III, iv)
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