William Shakespeare - Othello (1604)

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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

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Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues!

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O farewell …
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

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Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly
breach.

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Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.

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The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.

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I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
For too much loving you.

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Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter.

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O heaven! that such companions thou'dst unfold, And put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascals naked through the world.

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The bloody book of law You shall yourself read in the bitter letter After your own sense.

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Is this the noble nature
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
The shot of accident nor dart of chance
Could neither graze nor pierce?

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I am not merry, but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.

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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But, O! what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves!

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It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul;
Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!
It is the cause.

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Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

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I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this,
Killing myself to die upon a kiss.

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Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,
To follow still the changes of the moon
With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.

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Silence that dreadful bell! it frights the isle
From her propriety.

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Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
That make ambition virtue!

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But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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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?*

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Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.

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But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they are jealous; 'tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

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An honorable murderer, if you will;
For nought I did in hate, but all in honor.

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Rude am I in my speech,
And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

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You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.

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Then, must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well.

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The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

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