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Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,

Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep
William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Wall, War
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

William Shakespeare
Morning, Sorrow, Romeo And Juliet Love
1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

William Shakespeare
Blood, Deeds, Hot
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.589

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.

William Shakespeare
Potters, Wheels, My Thoughts
1592 Talbot. Henry VI Part One, act1, sc.7, l.19-20.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

William Shakespeare
Giving, News, Tongue
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 85

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

William Shakespeare
Wine, Men, Names
'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [293]

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Ifs
William Shakespeare (1825). “The Plays of Shakespeare, in Nine Volumes..”, p.68

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

William Shakespeare
Fate, Destiny, Assurance
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 83

The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Weed, Sweet
Sonnet 94

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

William Shakespeare
Air, Laughing, Receiving
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.21

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Bird, Fairness
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.942

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

William Shakespeare
Love You, Venice, Lips
William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.295, Bloomsbury Publishing

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

William Shakespeare
Gratitude, Strong, Hate
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [390]

To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.

William Shakespeare
Dad, Father, Form
William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.8, Callisto Media Inc

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

William Shakespeare
Art, Men, Night

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

William Shakespeare
Love, Hate, Determined
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 28

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

William Shakespeare
Tragedy, Departure, Earth

I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.

William Shakespeare
Wife, Exhibitions, Levels
William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.241

If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Ifs
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.404

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

William Shakespeare
Mother, Art, Glasses
Sonnet 3

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

William Shakespeare
Tardiness, Diffidence
William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1997). “King Lear: Third Series”, p.174, A&C Black

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Liars, Men
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.

William Shakespeare
Winter, Blow, Wind
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Eye, Wish
William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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