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| Measure for Measure Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. | Doubt | Measure for Measure |
| 2 | The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope. | Faith | Measure for measure |
| 3 | One who never feels the wanton stings and motions of the sens, but doth rebate and blunt his natural edge with profits of the mind, study and fast. | Fasting | Measure for Measure |
| 4 | O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. | Strength | Measure for Measure |
| 5 | Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. | Virtue | Measure for Measure |
| 6 | 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. | Weakness | Measure for Measure |
| 7 | Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder,-- Nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority,-- Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence,--like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. | Tyranny | Measure for Measure |
| 8 | Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. | Soul | Measure for Measure |
| 9 | Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. | Stealing | Measure for Measure |
| 10 | He was ever precise in promise-keeping. | Promise | Measure for Measure |
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