William Shakespeare - Othello (1604)

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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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What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows?

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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

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

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