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" I that am cruel am yet merciful;
I would not have thee linger in thy pain: So, so. "

- OTHELLO,ACT V.SCENE II.




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Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,
Whether I in any just term am affined
To love the Moor.
- IAGO,Act I. scene I


We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
- IAGO,Act I. scene I


'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not
serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to
do you service and you think we are ruffians
- IAGO,Act I. scene I


O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!
Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds
By what you see them act
- BRABANTIO,Act I. scene I


Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contrived murder
- IAGO,Act I.SCENE II.


Ancient, conduct them: you best know the place
And, till she come, as truly as to heaven
I do confess the vices of my blood,
So justly to your grave ears I'll present
How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,
And she in mine.
- OTHELLO,Act I.SCENE III.


She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used:
- OTHELLO,Act I.SCENE III.


When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
Patience her injury a mockery makes.
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
- DUKE OF VENICE,Act I.SCENE III.


Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence,
Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers
Into your favour.
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
Patience her injury a mockery makes.
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
- DUKE OF VENICE,Act I.SCENE III.


The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down
- OTHELLO,Act I.SCENE III.