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Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

William Shakespeare
Love, Wedding Anniversary, Fire
William Shakespeare, William Harness, Nicholas Rowe, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.328

Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.

William Shakespeare
Two, Mad, Female
William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.363

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Sleep, Night
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Giving, Desire
William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1823). “Complete dramatic works and miscellaneous poems”, p.9

Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Hands, Soul
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 47

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare
Life, Death, Men
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 9

No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Sweet, Love You
Sonnet 71

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

William Shakespeare
Giving, Imagination, Ambitious
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Comfort, Earth
1595 York. Richard II, act 2, sc.2, l.78-9.

I have supped full with horrors.

William Shakespeare
Horror
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 9

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

William Shakespeare
Littles, Kind
"Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear".

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo

William Shakespeare
Burden, Heavy, Heavy Burdens
William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

William Shakespeare
Names, Fear Of Death, Honour
William Shakespeare (1752). “The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play, with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors by W. Dodd”, p.92

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Mermaid, Tears
William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.595

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

William Shakespeare
Ears, Daggers, Fancy

You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Wife, Hearing
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.43, Barron's Educational Series

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

William Shakespeare
Lord, Polonius, Hamlet 2
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [195]

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

William Shakespeare
Moving, Soul, Juliet
William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Reflection, Cassius
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.336, Bloomsbury Publishing

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

William Shakespeare
Girl, Hamlet And Ophelia, Green
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 101

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Mistress, Innocence
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4335, BookCaps Study Guides

Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.

William Shakespeare
Crush, Kings, Men
William Shakespeare (2015). “King Richard II”, p.82, Courier Dover Publications

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

William Shakespeare
Shoes, Dancing, Soul
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.205, Classic Books Company

As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

William Shakespeare
Heart, Troops, Looks
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

William Shakespeare
Writing, Night, House
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [289]

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