William Shakespeare Quotes
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We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.
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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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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
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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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Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.
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Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
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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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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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To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.
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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
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Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.
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If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
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There's daggers in men's smiles.
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Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
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I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
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The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.
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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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The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
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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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Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
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Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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I am a feather for each wind that blows
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.