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Intents And Acts: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

His act did not o'ertake his bad intent; And must be buried but as an intent, That perish'd by the way: thoughts are no subjects; Intents but merely thoughts.— M. M. V. 1

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then— J.C. ii. 1

The nature of an insurrection.