William Shakespeare Quotes
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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.
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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
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If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
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Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
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Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
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You know who you are, but know not who you could be.
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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
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Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
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Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
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I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
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Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
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If your mind dislike anything obey it
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You are strangely troublesome.
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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
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For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly.
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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
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My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
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I myself am best When least in company.
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A man can die but once.
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Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
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I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
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What is more miserable than discontent?