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- It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
- Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
- Men have marble, women waxen, minds.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
- Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
- Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
- Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
- Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
- Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, sc. 2
- To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, sc. 1
- Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, sc. 3
- Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, sc. 2
- Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Introduction, sc. 2
- Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange. - William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, sc. 2
- He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1
- The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1
- Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. - William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, sc. 1
- O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, sc. 3
- Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. 4
- Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. 4
- The chameleon Love can feed on the air.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc.1
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