William Shakespeare - Othello (1604)

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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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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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O thou weed!
Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst
ne'er been born.

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You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

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I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

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But, alas! to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at.

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I had rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others' uses.

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Take note, take note, O world!
To be direct and honest is not safe.

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Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.

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She that was ever fair and never proud,
Had tongue at will and yet was never loud.

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Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

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O ill-starred wench!
Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!
Even like thy chastity.

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Still question'd me the story of my life From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes That I have pass'd.

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So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.

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And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders.

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Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

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He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all.

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

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

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

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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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This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.

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Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.

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The heart hath treble wrong
When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.

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