William Shakespeare Quotes
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Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
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This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
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Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
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Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.
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Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.
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Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?
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A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
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Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
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Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.
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For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
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O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
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The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
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The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
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Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.
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How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!
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The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.
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Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
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Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
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To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
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It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.
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For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.