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So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
  Discomfort swells.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Sergeant at I, ii)

Present fears
  Are less than horrible imaginings.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at I, iii)

Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
  In deepest consequence.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Banquo at I, iii)

I dare do all that may become a man;
  Who dares do more is none.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at I, vii)

This even-handed justice
  Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
    To our own lips.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at I, vii)

We but teach
  Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
    To plague the inventor.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at I, vii)

Whence is that knocking?
  How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at II, ii)

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at III, ii)

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
  Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at III, ii)

We have scorched the snake, not killed it.
  She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice
    Remains in danger of her former tooth.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at III, ii)

Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
  To what they were before.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Ross at IV, ii)

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
  Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Malcolm at IV, iii)

What's done cannot be undone.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Lady Macbeth at V, i)

It is a tale
  Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at V, v)

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
  Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time,
      And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
        The way to dusty death.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
         (Macbeth at V, v)

In time the rod
  Becomes more mocked than feared.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at I, iii)

Our doubts are traitors,
  And make us lose the good we oft might win,
    By fearing to attempt.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Lucio at I, iv)

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Escalus at II, i)

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
  Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
    And some condemned for a fault alone.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Escalus at II, i)

But man, proud man,
  Drest in a little brief authority,--
    Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
      As make the angels weep.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Isabella at II, ii)

Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Angelo at II, ii)

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
  Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Isabella at II, ii)

The miserable have no other medicine,
  But only hope:
    I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Claudio at III, i)

The sense of death is most in apprehension,
  And the poor beetle that we tread upon
    In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
      As when a giant dies.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Isabella at III, i)

The sense of death is most in apprehension.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Isabella at III, i)

Craft against vice I must apply.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)

No might nor greatness in mortality
  Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
    The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
      Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)

O, what may man within him hide,
  Though angel on the outward side!
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)

What king so strong,
  Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)

They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
      - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
         (Mariana at V, i)

Let every eye negotiate for itself
  And trust no agent.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Much Ado About Nothing
         (Claudio at II, i)

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i)

Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Much Ado About Nothing
         (Benedick at III, ii)

If half thy outward graces had been placed
  About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Much Ado About Nothing
         (Claudio at IV, i)

It so falls out
  That what we have we prize not to the worth
    Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
      Why, then we rack the value.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Much Ado About Nothing
         (Friar Francis at IV, i)

I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at I, i)

Preferment goes by letter and affection,
  And not by old gradation, where each second
    Stood heir to th's first.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at I, i)

Preferment goes by letter and affection.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at I, i)

'Tis not long after
  But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,
    For daws to peck at.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at I, i)

She has deceived her father, and may thee.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Brabantio at I, iii)

She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
  And I loved her for having pitied them.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Othello at I, iii)

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at II, iii)

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at II, iii)

Dull not device by coldness and delay.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at II, iii)

Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Cassio at II, iii)

How poor are they that have not patience!
  What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at II, iii)

O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Cassio at II, iii)

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at II, iii)

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at II, iii)

When devils will the blackest sins put on,
  They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!
      - William Shakespeare,
        Othello the Moor of Venice
         (Iago at II, iii)


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