William Shakespeare Quotes
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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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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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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
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LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
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Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
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A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .
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This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
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I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
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Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
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Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
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Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
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What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
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God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
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The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.
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If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.