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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
Topic: Diligence
Source: None
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Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
Topic: Disappointments
Source: None
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Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your
tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with
this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of
nature.
Topic: Discretion
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part
I have saved my life.
Topic: Discretion
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at V, iv)
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Question your grace the late ambassadors,
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you shall find his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring and be most delicate.
Topic: Discretion
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Constable at II, iv)
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I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
Topic: Discretion
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Armado at V, ii)
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Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you
both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one
another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything;
for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old
folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the
world.
Topic: Discretion
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Quickly at II, ii)
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Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.
Topic: Discretion
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at II, iii)
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The better part of valour is discretion.
Topic: Discretion
Source: None
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O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
Topic: Disease
Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i)
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Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
Topic: Disease
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, iii)
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This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson
tingling.
Topic: Disease
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Falstaff at I, ii)
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I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will
To take the indisposed and sickly fit
For the sound man.
Topic: Disease
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,
On their departure most of all show evil.
Topic: Disease
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pandulph at III, iv)
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And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of honor to disgrace's feet?
Topic: Disgrace
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Gloucester at I, ii)
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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.
Topic: Dissension
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!
Topic: Dissension
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (King Henry at IV, i)
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There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.
Topic: Divinity
Source: None
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The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me.
Topic: Dogs
Source: King Lear (King Lear at III, vi)
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Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the
creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great
image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.
Topic: Dogs
Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi)
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I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.
Topic: Doubt
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, v)
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To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.
Topic: Doubt
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To th' bottom of the worst.
Topic: Doubt
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at II, ii)
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But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Topic: Doubt
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
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Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
Topic: Doubt
Source: Measure for Measure (Lucio at I, iv)
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Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it
That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
To hang a doubt on--or woe upon thy life!
Topic: Doubt
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
Topic: Doubt
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Topic: Doubt
Source: None
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Topic: Doubt
Source: None
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Anon, as patient as the female dove
When that her golden couplets are disclosed,
His silence will sit drooping.
Topic: Doves
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at V, i)
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. . . The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, . . .
Topic: Doves
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Westmoreland at IV, i)
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So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
Topic: Doves
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at I, v)
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My noble father,
I do perceive here a divided duty.
Topic: Duty
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at I, iii)
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And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers,
Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her;
And, where I thought the remnant of mine age
Should have been cherished by her childlike duty,
I now am full resolved to take a wife
And turn her out to who will take her in.
Topic: Duty
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Duke of Milan at III, i)
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Last night the very gods showed me a vision--
I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:
I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged
From the spongy south to this part of the west,
There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends,
Unless my sins abuse my divination,
Success to th' Roman host.
Topic: Eagles
Source: Cymbeline (Soothsayer at IV, ii)
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My free drift
Halts not particularly, but moves itself
In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice
Infects one comma in the course I hold,
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
Leaving no tract behind.
Topic: Eagles
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Poet at I, i)
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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: Eagles
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: Eagles
Source: Titus Andronicus (Tamora at IV, iv)
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No, Antony, take the lot:
But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
Grew faw with feasting there.
Topic: Eating
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Pompey at II, vi)
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I almost die for food, and let me have it!
Topic: Eating
Source: As You Like It (Orlando at II, vii)
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Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
Topic: Eating
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, vii)
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Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
Topic: Eating
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at IV, iii)
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Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.
Topic: Eating
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at IV, iii)
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Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings;
Unquiet meals make ill digestions;
Thereof the raging fire of fever bred.
Topic: Eating
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Lady Abbess at V, i)
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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you
would eat chickens i' th' shell.
Topic: Eating
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Cressida at I, ii)
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He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all of my
substance into that fat belly of his.
Topic: Eating
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Hostess at II, i)
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He that keeps not crust nor crum
Weary of all, shall want some.
Topic: Eating
Source: King Lear (Fool at I, iv)
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Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the
wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the
foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat
and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool;
who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and
imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to
his body,
Horse to ride, and weapon to wear,
But mice and rats, and such small deer,
Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Topic: Eating
Source: King Lear (Edgar at III, iv)
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Be it not in thy care. Go,
I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide
Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.
Topic: Eating
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, iv)
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Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of
his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a
City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the
first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.
Topic: Eating
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, vi)
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