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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
1828
    ’T is neither here nor there.
          Othello. Act iv. Sc. 3.
1829
    It makes us or it mars us.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 1.
1830
    Every way makes my gain.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 1.
1831
    He hath a daily beauty in his life.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 1.
1832
    This is the night
That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 1.
1833
    And smooth as monumental alabaster.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1834
    Put out the light, and then put out the light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
I can again thy former light restore
Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,
Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1835
    So sweet was ne’er so fatal.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1836
    Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
Had stomach for them all.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1837
    One entire and perfect chrysolite.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1838
    Curse his better angel from his side,
And fall to reprobation.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1839
    Every puny whipster.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1840
    Man but a rush against Othello’s breast,
And he retires.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1841
    I have done the state some service, and they know ’t.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then, must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away