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"Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you."
"As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next."
"I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something."
"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."
"He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit."
"Courage mounteth with occasion."
"woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see"
"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises."
"Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?"
"Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure."
"Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties"
"No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage."
"Swift as shadow, short as any dream"
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
"A sympathy in choice."
"When I was at home I was in a better place"
"Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do."
"A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."
"Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on."