William Shakespeare Quotes
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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
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The proverb is something musty.
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Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
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Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.
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You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
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thus with a kiss I die
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Beauty within itself should not be wasted.
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What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service
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Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love, Unseparable, shall within this hour, On a dissension of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues.
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No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
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I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
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By that sin fell the angels.
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The pleasing punishment that women bear.
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England is safe, if true within itself.
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Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
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You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
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The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.