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Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?

A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

A dream itself is but a shadow.

Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

A flock of blessings light upon thy back

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

A fusty nut with no kernel.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution

Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

A good heart 'is worth gold.

A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.