William Shakespeare Quotes
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A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.
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He wears the rose Of youth upon him.
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I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.
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O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
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Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
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Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down
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Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.
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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
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To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
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At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
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The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
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I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
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But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.
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The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.
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Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.
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Hardness ever of hardness is mother.
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Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.
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You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.
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Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.
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To beguile the time, look like the time.
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Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!