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So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Showers, My Thoughts
William Shakespeare (1973). “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved”, p.152, Springer

I cannot speak your england.

William Shakespeare
England, Speak
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1110, BookCaps Study Guides

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

William Shakespeare
Men, Ears, Tongue
William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (2007). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.

William Shakespeare
Pauses
William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.234

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

William Shakespeare
Taming, May, Fool
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.274

In jest, there is truth.

William Shakespeare
Jest

Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

William Shakespeare
Demand, Knows
1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.309-10.

Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

William Shakespeare
Hurt, Men, Doors
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [100]

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

William Shakespeare
Believe, Strange, Scene
William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

William Shakespeare
Blessed, Flames, House
1596-7 Prince Harry to Falstaff. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.6-12.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

William Shakespeare
Laughing, Pity, Should
William Shakespeare (1747). “The works of Shakespear, with a glossary, pr. from the Oxford ed. in quarto, 1744 [by Sir T.Hanmer].”, p.27

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Lying, Faces
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [214]

Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Soul, Thee
William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.415, BookCaps Study Guides

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Thinking, Two
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.446, Barnes & Noble Publishing

It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?

William Shakespeare
Night, Thinking, Looks
William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.19, Shakespeare Comic Books

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Love Is, Sin
William Shakespeare (1804). “Poems by William Shakespeare”, p.226

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

William Shakespeare
Running, Fall, Ice
William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.71

Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Earth, Dull
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.811

For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

William Shakespeare
Men, Conclusion, Giddy
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.549, Wordsworth Editions

You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.

William Shakespeare
Kings, May, Glory
"The Life and Death of King Richard the Second".

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Done, Villain
William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.514, Modern Library

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

William Shakespeare
Respect, World, Care
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 74

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

William Shakespeare
House, Temples, Spirit
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.67

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

William Shakespeare
Law, World, Juliet
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

William Shakespeare
Art, Men, Beast
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [110]

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