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- 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
- Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
- The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.
- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 2
- Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;
A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud;
A brittle glass that's broken presently:
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour. - William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
- William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.
- William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
- William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- If that the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love. - William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.
- William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
- William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
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