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Ground Quotes by William Shakespeare
- We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
- You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
- Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
- That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone,…
- I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the…
- If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground
- Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat…
- Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And…
- And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
- For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
- I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
- Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and…
- So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.
- And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our…
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