Tempest Quotes
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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
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How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
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The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
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For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.
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When I waked, I cried to dream again
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The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
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Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
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Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.
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Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
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To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.
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He that dies pays all debts.
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At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
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What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
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Fill all thy bones with aches.
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Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.
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Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
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Now I will believe that there are unicorns.
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This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
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Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near the horizon, but toward the upper part is a dull reddish color. The tempest came with great violence, but after a while, the winds ceased all at once and a calm succeeded. This lasted... an hour, more or less, then the gales were turned around, blowing with great fury from the southwest.
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
