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- 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
- A man I am cross'd with adversity.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, sc.1
- A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a.
- William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 3
- The moon's an arrant theif, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
- William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, sc. 3
- My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, sc. 3
- Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, sc. 4
- If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes.
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III, sc. 1
- He takes false shadows for true substances.
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III, sc. 2
- Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
- The common curse of mankind,-folly and ignorance.
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, sc. 2
- A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant.
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, sc. 3
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