William Shakespeare Quotes
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To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
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Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?
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How now, wit! Whither wander you?
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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.
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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
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By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
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I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.
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By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
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For by his face straight shall you know his heart.
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The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.
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Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths.
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Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
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No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
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...an old man is twice a child.
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The let-alone lies not in your good will.
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You kiss by th' book.
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What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?
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Courage mounteth with occasion.
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.
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Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.
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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.