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William Shakespeare
One touch of...
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,
That all with one consent praise newborn...
My mind is...
My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred;
And I myself see not the bottom of it.
The baby figure...
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.
Source: Troilus...
Thus to persist<br>In...
Thus to persist
In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,
But makes it much more heavy.
O world, world!...
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill...
To be wise,...
To be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might.
Source: Troilus and Cressida, III....
I am giddy,...
I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my...
That she belov'd...
That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this: Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it...
Tis mad idolatry<br>To...
Tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god.
Source: Troilus and...
Perseverance, dear my...
Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty...
Knowing I loved...
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my...
. . ....
. . . We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a...
The rarer action...
The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.
Source: The Tempest, V. i....
How camest thou...
How camest thou in this pickle?
Source: The Tempest, V. i. (281).
-- William...
When they will...
When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead...
My library<br>Was dukedom...
My library
Was dukedom large enough.
Source: The Tempest, I. ii. (109).
--...
Flout 'em, and...
Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em;
Thought is free.
Source:...
He's winding up...
He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
Source: Sebastian,...
Misery acquaints a...
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Source: The Tempest, II. ii....
They'll take suggestion...
They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
Source: The Tempest, II. i....