William Shakespeare Quotes
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Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
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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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Patch grief with proverbs.
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It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.
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Avaunt, you cullions!
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We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
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I myself am best When least in company.
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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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Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
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Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
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It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!
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Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
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Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
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Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
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Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!
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Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.
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When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.