William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.
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Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
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My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.
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As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
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For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.
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This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.
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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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The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
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And she's fair I love.
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One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
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Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
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All offences come from the heart.
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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.
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Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.
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Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
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No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.
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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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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
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I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.