William Shakespeare Quotes
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However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
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If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.
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After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
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[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
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The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.
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On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air
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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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No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
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It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.
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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
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Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
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Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
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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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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.