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1  Ay, madam, but returns again tonight.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
2  The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
3  My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
4  Bring forth men-children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
5  Thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
6  Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
7  Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
8  Almost a mile; but he does usually, So all men do, from hence to the palace gate Make it their walk.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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9  All is but toys: renown and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
10  So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franchis'd, and allegiance clear, I shall be counsell'd.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
11  There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and under him My genius is rebuk'd; as, it is said, Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
12  Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
13  But in these cases We still have judgement here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague th inventor.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
14  My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smother'd in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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15  Threescore and ten I can remember well, Within the volume of which time I have seen Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
16  Your Highness' part Is to receive our duties: and our duties Are to your throne and state, children and servants; Which do but what they should, by doing everything Safe toward your love and honour.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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17  This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
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