William Shakespeare Quotes
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Ay me! sad hours seem long.
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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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Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.
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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
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If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
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Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
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Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.
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My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
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Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!
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In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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so full of shapes is fancy
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My soul is in the sky.
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To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
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The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.
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Barnes are blessings.
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No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
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By Heaven, I love thee better than myself.
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Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.
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Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.
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For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
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A hit, a very palpable hit.
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I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.