Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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The wanton stings and motions of the sense.

Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 4.[47:1]

He arrests him on it;

And follows close the rigour of the statute,

To make him an example.

Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 4.[47:1]

Our doubts are traitors,

And make us lose the good we oft might win

By fearing to attempt.

Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 4.[47:1]