William Shakespeare Quotes
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Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
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There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
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For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
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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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How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
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Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
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Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
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Good reasons must of force give place to better.
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I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
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But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.
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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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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
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The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
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Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.
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Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
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Have patience, and endure
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A very honest woman but something given to lie
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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.