William Shakespeare Quotes
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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
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Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.
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Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
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Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
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Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.
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Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
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Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
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Justice always whirls in equal measure.
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Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
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Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.
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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
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Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
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Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
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To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
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See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
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I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
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For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
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I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.