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Contrary Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
- She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so…
- Our wills and fates do so contrary run.
- What is wedlock forced but a hell, an age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss and is a pattern of celestial…
- Feste. The better for my foes and the worse for my friends. Orsino. Just the contrary: the better for thy friends. Feste. No, sir, the…
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