William Shakespeare Quotes
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To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
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Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.
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Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
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Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.
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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
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Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
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Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.
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That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
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Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.
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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
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'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
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Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
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You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
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How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!
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O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
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You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.
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Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
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Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
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Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
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To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.