William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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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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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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Haste is needful in a desperate case.
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I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.
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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
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From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
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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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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
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The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
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You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
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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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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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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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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.