William Shakespeare Quotes
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Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
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Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
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All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
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You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
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The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
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Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
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From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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Tears water our growth.
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Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.
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Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?
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Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.
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Haste is needful in a desperate case.
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Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.
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And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!