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

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Taking the measure of an unmade grave.

Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.

Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5.

Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5.

All these woes shall serve

For sweet discourses in our time to come.

Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5.