William Shakespeare Quotes
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And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
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Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
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Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.
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Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
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Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.
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Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.
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So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.
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Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.
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Greatness knows itself.
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You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
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They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
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I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
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Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
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The icy precepts of respect.
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Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
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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.