"I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster"
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"Great floods have flown From simple sources."
"What's more to do, Which would be planted newly with the time, As calling home our exiled friends abroad That fled the snares of watchful tyranny, Producing forth the cruel ministers Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen, Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands Took off her life; this, and what needful else That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace We will perform in measure, time, and place."
"At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies."
"I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)"
"If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!"
"A table-full of welcome!"
"There are no tricks in plain and simple faith."
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
"Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits."
"A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame."
"Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith."
"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
"This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest."
"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
"Pray you now, forget and forgive."
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
"But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it."
"Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures."
"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills."