William Shakespeare Quotes
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Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.
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That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.
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Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.
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Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
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The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
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For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
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My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.
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O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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We were not born to sue, but to command.
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Sin will pluck on sin.
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Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
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Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.
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This liberty is all that I request.
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Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.
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Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.
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Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
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O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
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Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil
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To you your father should be as a god.