William Shakespeare Quotes
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
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How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
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They are but beggars that can count their worth.
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
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I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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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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I am wealthy in my friends.
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O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since.
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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently
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Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
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More matter with less art.
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He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
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But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
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Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.
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He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
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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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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
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O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!