William Shakespeare Quotes
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My pride fell with my fortunes.
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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.
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I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.
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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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Our enemies are our outward consciences.
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If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
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Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
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Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
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Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?
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Good counselors lack no clients.
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From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
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For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.
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O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
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Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.
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Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
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O, had I but followed the arts!
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Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
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Every cloud engenders not a storm.
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An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
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My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.