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This night I hold an old accustomed feast,
Whereto I have invited many a guest,
Such as I love; and you among the store,
One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
Topic: Festivities
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Capulet at I, ii)
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O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?
Topic: Fidelity
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at V, i)
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You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel.
Topic: Fidelity
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena at II, i)
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A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
Topic: Fire
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clarence at IV, viii)
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The fire i' th' flint
Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame
Provokes itself and like the current flies
Each bound it chafes.
Topic: Fire
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Poet at I, i)
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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
Topic: Fire
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta at I, ii)
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Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,
That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious
To have mistrusted her.
Topic: Flattery
Source: Cymbeline (Cymbeline at V, v)
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Nay, do not think I flatter.
For what advancement may I hope from thee,
That no revenue hast but thy good spirits
To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?
No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.
Topic: Flattery
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betrayed with trees
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Lions with toils, and men with flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
Topic: Flattery
Source: Julius Caesar (Decius at II, i)
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By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy
The tongues of soothers! but a braver place
In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.
Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.
Topic: Flattery
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at IV, i)
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What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
But poisoned flattery?
Topic: Flattery
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, i)
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O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
Topic: Flattery
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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They do not abuse the king that flatter him.
For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
The thing the which is flattered, but a spark
To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;
Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,
Fits kings as they are men, for they may err.
Topic: Flattery
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Helicanus at I, ii)
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Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;
Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Topic: Flattery
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at III, i)
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Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.
Topic: Flowers
Source: None
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Lord, what fools these mortals be.
Topic: Fools
Source: None
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The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . .
Topic: Footsteps
Source: Venus and Adonis (l. 1,028)
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick
in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we
were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves,
thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary
influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition on the charge of a star.
Topic: Foppery
Source: King Lear (Edmund at I, ii)
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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?
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at III, iii)
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I pardon him as God shall pardon me.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Henry at V, iii)
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But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
Topic: Fraud
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia at II, vii)
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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,
And is enough for both.
Topic: Gain
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at II, i)
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This casket threatens; men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;
I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
Topic: Gain
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii)
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No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most effect.
Topic: Gain
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio at I, i)
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When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun's report,
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky;
So at his sight away his fellows fly,
And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls;
He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
Topic: Geese
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at III, ii)
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What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
[Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.]
Topic: Geese
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at III, ii)
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Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Topic: Giving
Source: None
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Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.
Topic: Glory
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at I, ii)
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Like madness is the glory of this life
As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
Topic: Glory
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near
And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Topic: Glowworms
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
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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.
Topic: Gold
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.
Topic: Gold
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.
Topic: Gold
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.'
Topic: Gold
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.
Topic: Gold
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia & Gratiano at V, i)
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There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.
Topic: Gold
Source: None
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But that your royal pleasure must be done,
This act is as an ancient tale new told,
And in the last repeating troublesome,
Being urged at a time unreasonable.
Topic: Gossip
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pembroke at IV, ii)
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Foul whisp'rings are abroad.
Topic: Gossip
Source: Macbeth (Doctor of Physic at V, i)
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(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the
death of a third husband.
Topic: Gossip
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Salerio & Solanio at III, i)
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Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!
Topic: Grace
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell
That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!
Topic: Grace
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia at I, i)
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Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,
Before, behind thee, and on every hand,
Enwheel thee round!
Topic: Grace
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, i)
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Full many a lady
I have eyed with best regard, and many a time
Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues
Have I liked several women; never any
With so full soul but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed,
And put it to the foil.
Topic: Grace
Source: The Tempest (Ferdinand at III, i)
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He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
Topic: Grace
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Andrew at II, iii)
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Now the good gods forbid
That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude
Towards her deserved children is enrolled
In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam
Should now eat up her own!
Topic: Gratitude
Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i)
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Let but the commons hear this testament,
Which (pardon me) I do not mean to read,
And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood;
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
And dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
Upon their issue.
Topic: Gratitude
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
Topic: Grief
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Countess of Rossillion at III, ii)
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This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings
forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that
should water this sorrow.
Topic: Grief
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus at I, ii)
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O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,
Have written strange defeatures in my face.
Topic: Grief
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Egeon at V, i)
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