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Delusion: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing, Which the brain makes of fumes: our very eyes Are sometimes like our judgments, blind.— Cym. iv. 2.

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.— M. i. 3.

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.— M. V. 7.

Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that, when the image of it leaves him, he must run mad.— T. N. ii. 5.

Thus may poor fools believe false teachers.— Cym. iii. 4.

This is the very coinage of your brain; This bodiless creation extacy Is very cunning in.— H. iii. 4.

Alas, how is't with you? That you do bend your eyes on vacancy,— H. ii. 4

And with the incorporal air do hold discourse ? H. iii. 4 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place; Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.— H. iii. 4

Indeed, it is a strange disposed time: But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.— J.C. i. 3.