"Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)"
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"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
"You have witchcraft in your lips"
"There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done."
"Love is a wonderful, terrible thing"
"Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt."
"Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee."
"'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall."
"Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you"
"Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes."
"Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house."
"Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship."
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
"That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing."
"We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
"And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
"Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man."
"Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die."
"In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue."