"Either to die the death or to abjure……" — William Shakespeare
"Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare has 3,182 quotes on this site.
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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More Abjure Quotes
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
— Theodor Adorno
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond…
— John Calvin
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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement…
— Richard Rorty
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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.
— John Donne
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I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally…
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
— George Orwell
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We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth.…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely…
— Iris Murdoch
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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to…
— William Shakespeare
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I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as…
— Charlaine Harris
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I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the…
— Galileo Galilei
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Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect…
— Charles Spurgeon
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