FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)
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Urging Romeo to moderate his reckless passion for Juliet.
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I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that’s entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.
Barbara Brown Taylor (b. 1951) American minister, academic, author
Interview (2006-06-08) by Bob Abernathy, PBS
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VOLUMNIA: Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 68ff (2.4.68-69) (c. 1608)
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“I can see we’re going to get along like a house on fire,” said Miss Tick. “There may be no survivors.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 30, The Wee Free Men (2003)
