William Shakespeare Quotes
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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
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Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
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O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.
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The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
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He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.
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The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!
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To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.
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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.
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And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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Good counselors lack no clients.
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I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.
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Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
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No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
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It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.
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We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
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Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
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Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
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All difficulties are easy when they are known.
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Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.
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These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.