William Shakespeare Quotes
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My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
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Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.
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A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
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Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
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Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.
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Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
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You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.
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And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
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Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.
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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.
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Justice always whirls in equal measure.
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Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!
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To saucy doubts and fears.
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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
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To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
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Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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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?