"Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."
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"I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads."
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"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance."
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"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)"
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"The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night."
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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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"Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets."
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness."
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"In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life."
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"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."
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"Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave."
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"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
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"These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport."
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"If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law."
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"There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor."
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"There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times."
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"Men prize the thing ungained more than it is."
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"I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
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"Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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