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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.
William Shakespeare
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Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
William Shakespeare -
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.
William Shakespeare -
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
William Shakespeare -
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.
William Shakespeare -
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
William Shakespeare -
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
William Shakespeare
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He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.
William Shakespeare -
See where she comes apparelled like the spring.
William Shakespeare -
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
William Shakespeare -
Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
William Shakespeare -
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
William Shakespeare -
She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.
William Shakespeare
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Make passionate my sense of hearing.
William Shakespeare -
Soft pity enters an iron gate.
William Shakespeare -
I had as lief have been myself alone.
William Shakespeare -
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare -
But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
William Shakespeare -
All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
William Shakespeare
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Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.
William Shakespeare -
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
William Shakespeare -
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
William Shakespeare -
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
William Shakespeare