William Shakespeare Quotes
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
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. . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done.
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I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
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For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
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Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
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To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
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Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.
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Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
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More of your conversation would infect my brain.
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
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Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
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Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
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We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.