“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.
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William Shakespeare
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“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II”
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
“O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
“Zu früh, befürcht ich; denn mein Herz erbangt Und ahnet ein Verhängnis, welches, noch Verborgen in den Sternen, heute Nacht Bei dieser Lustbarkeit den furchtbarn Zeitlauf Beginnen und das Zi...”
“La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.”
“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”