William Shakespeare Quotes
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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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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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I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
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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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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence
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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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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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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
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You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.
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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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To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
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Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.