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- His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
- I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
- They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they starve with nothing.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 2
- When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is a little better than a beast.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 2
- But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
- Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 2
- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 6
- The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 9
- The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 9
- Young in limbs, in judgement old.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc.7
- Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
- Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
- There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
- I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc. 1
- The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc. 1
- To do a great right, do a little wrong.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc. 1
- How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, sc. 1
- Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;
Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature.
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, sc. 1
- If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, sc. 1
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