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"Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without Fear or Doubt, To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love."
"Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men."
"Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first."
"Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife."
"A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth."
"Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short."
"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come."
"Out of her favour, where I am in love."
"Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus."
"Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of."
"I pardon him, as God shall pardon me."
"I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows."
"For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts."
"Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."
"To whom God will, there be the victory."
"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy."
"Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong."
"We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy."
"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly."
"We were not born to sue, but to command."