Take Note! Quote
“But yield who will to their separation
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future’s sakes.”
“Two Tramps in Mud Time,” Robert Frost
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“Here is a note of certain dues”
Cophis, Timon of Athens, II, ii
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“They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.”
The Owl and the Pussycat, Edward Lear
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“Take a note of what I stand in need of”
Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona, II, vii
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“While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.”
Israfel, Edgar Allen Poe
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“Take note, take note”
Iago, Othello, III, iii
Grammar Tip
How do you really feel?
- Webster defines nauseous as “causing nausea or
disgust,” while nauseated is the past tense of nauseate, which
means “to become affected with nausea” or “to feel disgust.”
- Of course, Webster also offers a usage note nullifying the distinction:
in the modern world, nauseous usually means you feel unwell.
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“Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.”
Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold
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“I’ll note you in my book of memory”
Richard Plantagenet, Henry VI part I, II, iv
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“Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.”
Ulysses, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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“Why, here is the note”
Tailor, Taming of the Shrew, IV, iii
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“The world will little note nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
Address at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln
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“Didst note it?”
Leontes, Winter’s Tale, I, ii
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“The sounds are forced, the notes are few!”
“To the Muses,” Poetical Sketches, William Blake
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“I have noted it well”
Lear, King Lear, I, iv Grammar Tip
What kind of point was that? - We sure hear a lot from people making “mute points,”
especially as something mute does not speak. The traditional phrase is “moot
point” or “the point is moot.” A moot item has been rendered invalid or
irrelevant.
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“Chords that vibrate deepest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”
“Sensibility How Charming,” Johnson’s Musical Museum, Robert Burns
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“This most dreadful note”
Richmond, Richard III, V, iii
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“Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as, warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek.”
Il Penseroso, John Milton
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“Take but good note”
Philo, Antony and Cleopatra, I, i
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“Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.”
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, John Dryden
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“And take good note”
Portia, Julius Caesar, II, iv
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“A note
as from a single place,
A slender tinkling fall that made
Now drops that floated on the pool
Like
pearls, and now a silver blade.”
“Going for Water,” Robert Frost
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“Worthy the note”
Helena, All’s Well that Ends Well, III, v
Grammar Tip
There’s a hole in your pocket… - When I moved to Tennessee, I first heard the phrase “out of
pocket” used to mean “away”, or “out of touch”. I thought it might be a
regional variation, but I hear it everywhere now. Historically, “out of pocket”
means broke—you have nothing to put in your pocket, or your wallet.
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“To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his
talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to
his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the
range and character of his deepest sympathies.”
“Miss Jewett,” Willa Cather
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“Give dreadful note of preparation”
Chorus, Henry V, IV, prologue
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“The imperfect is our paradise.
Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
Lies in
flawed words and stubborn sounds.”
The Poems of Our Climate, III, Wallace Stevens
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“I have took note of it”
Hamlet, Hamlet, V, i
Grammar Tip
Those crazy “s”s! - I know, I know—some words look just plain NUTS with an “s”
on the end. Unfortunately, you can’t use an apostrophe to make a plural, no
matter how strange the plural looks. I recently saw a truck with “patio’s” on
it, but the plural remains “patios.”
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“War is not a life: it is a situation,
One
which may neither be ignored nor accepted.”
A Note on War Poetry, T. S. Eliot
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“Pray you, take note of it”
Duke, Measure for Measure, V, i
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“a crystal note reverberates”
“Glass Bubbles,” Rosanne Catalano
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“Note me this, good friend”
Menenius, Coriolanus, I, i
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“What needs you note it?”
Katherine, Henry VIII, II, iv
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