William Shakespeare Quotes About Crime
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He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
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If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?
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In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.
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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.
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I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.
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Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
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Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them, but abound In the division of each several crime, Acting in many ways.
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Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.
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Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.
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Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
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Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
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