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Power: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

O perilous mouths, That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, Either of condemnation or approof! Bidding the law make court'sy to their will; Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, To follow as it draws!— A. M. ii. 4.

We had need pray, And heartily, for our deliverance; Or this imperious man will work us all From princes into pages: all men's honours Lie in one lump before him, to be fashion'd Into what pitch he please.— H. VIII. ii. 2.

In his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were— A.C. v. 2

As plates dropp'd from his pocket. The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins— J.C. ii. 1.

Remorse from power. Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue and heart.— M. M. i. 1.

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The worthiness of praise distains his worth If that the prais'd himself bring the praise forth: But what the rip'ning enemy commend, That breath fame follows; that praise, sole pure, transcends.— T.C. i. 3.

Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon! Ah! when the means are gone, that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. T.A. ii. 2. Shakespeacian Dictionary.