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Purpose Quotes by William Shakespeare
- What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
- As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
- See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved…
- My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.
- Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose you resolved to effect.
- Every why has a wherefore.
- It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
- What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
- Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop…
- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- Strong reasons make strong actions.
- But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple…
- Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted…
- The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
- With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both…
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