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What lines from Romeo and Juliet contain an oxymorons?

Here is a list of lines from Romeo and Juliet that contain oxymorons:

- Act 1, Scene 1: "Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,

Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn."

- Act 1, Scene 5: "O heavy lightness, serious vanity,

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,

Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!"

- Act 2, Scene 2: "Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."

- Act 3, Scene 2: "These violent delights have violent ends,

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,

Which as they kiss consume."

- Act 3, Scene 3: "Parting is such sweet sorrow,

That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

- Act 5, Scene 3: "Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb."

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