William Shakespeare Quotes
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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
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Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.
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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
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She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
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Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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Lions make leopards tame.
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Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
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Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
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Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania
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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing
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No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
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I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
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Thy friendship makes us fresh.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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You lack the season of all natures, sleep.