William Shakespeare Quotes
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
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Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.
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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
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Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?
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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
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Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
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There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.
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You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
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I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
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See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
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I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
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I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!
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Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.
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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.
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Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
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Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.
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You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.
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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
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The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows