William Shakespeare Quotes
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It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
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Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
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Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.
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A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
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The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
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For by his face straight shall you know his heart.
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Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
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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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A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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Be to yourself as you would to your friend.
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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
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I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
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Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.
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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
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Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
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What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue
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He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
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Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.