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Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe,
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.
Topic: Growth
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Queen at III, iv)
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'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester,
'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'
And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.
Topic: Growth
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (York at II, iv)
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O, my lord,
You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:
The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
Topic: Growth
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (York at III, i)
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No, truly, 'tis more than manners will;
And I have heard it said, unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Topic: Guests
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Bedford at II, ii)
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(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest.
(Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast,
And all-thing unbecoming.
Topic: Guests
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth & Lady Macbeth at III, i)
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Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;
Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
Topic: Guests
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at III, ii)
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Methinks a father
Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
That best becomes the table.
Topic: Guests
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at IV, iv)
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See, your guests approach.
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let's be red with mirth.
Topic: Guests
Source: The Winter's Tale (Florizel at IV, iv)
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Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Topic: Guests
Source: None
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And then it started, like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
Topic: Guilt
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, i)
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But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
And mine that I was proud on--mine so much
That I myself was to myself not mine,
Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
And salt too little which may season give
To her foul tainted flesh!
Topic: Guilt
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at IV, i)
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Topic: Guilt
Source: None
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Topic: Guilt
Source: None
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How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
Topic: Habit
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at V, iv)
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So holy and so perfect is my love,
And I in such a poverty of grace,
That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps.
Topic: Harvest
Source: As You Like It (Silvius at III, v)
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Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Topic: Haste
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at III, vii)
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Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Topic: Haste
Source: The Life and Death of King John (King John at IV, ii)
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Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Topic: Haste
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at III, iv)
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I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
Topic: Haste
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at III, ii)
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It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.'
Topic: Haste
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Topic: Haste
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
Topic: Haste
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
Topic: Hatred
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Charmian at I, iii)
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Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot plague them better.
Topic: Hatred
Source: Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v)
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes
with the next block.
Topic: Hatters
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at I, i)
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I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
Topic: Hatters
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at I, i)
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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know
a hawk from a handsaw.
Topic: Hawks
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch,
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,
Between two blades, which bears the better temper,
Between two horses, which doth bear him best,
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
Topic: Hawks
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Warwick at II, iv)
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No marvel, an it like your majesty,
My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;
They know their master loves to be aloft
And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.
Topic: Hawks
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Suffolk at II, i)
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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk.
Topic: Hawks
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Dauphin at III, vii)
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Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
Above the morning lark.
Topic: Hawks
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Lord at induction, ii)
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May be he is not well.
Infirmity doth neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound.
Topic: Health
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to
trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Topic: Health
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,
Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.
Topic: Hearing
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at II, i)
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Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Topic: Hearing
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be
silent, that you may hear.
Topic: Hearing
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at III, ii)
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Topic: Hearing
Source: None
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But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
Topic: Help
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled
Out of the powerful legions under earth,
Help me this once, that France may get the field.
Topic: Help
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at V, iii)
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A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand
Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,
And he that stands upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
Topic: Help
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pandulph at III, iv)
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Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like
enough to consent.
Topic: Holidays
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.
Topic: Holidays
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at I, ii)
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Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
Topic: Holidays
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.
Topic: Holidays
Source: The Tempest (Iris at IV, i)
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Topic: Honesty
Source: None
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Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor.
There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.
Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley
Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse
Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us;
And bid her steal into the pleached bower,
Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,
Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites,
Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her
To listen our propose. This is thy office.
Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.
Topic: Honeysuckles
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i)
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
Topic: Hope
Source: None
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Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
The armorers accomplishing the knights,
With busy hammers closing rivets up,
Give dreadful note of preparation.
Topic: Horses
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Chorus at IV, chorus)
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An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.
Topic: Horses
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry at III, v)
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The king is come. Deal mildly with his youth;
For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.
Topic: Horses
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at II, i)
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