William Shakespeare Quotes
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Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
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We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.
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Hang him, swaggering rascal!
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I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
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I dote on his very absence.
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So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.
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If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)
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Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
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I'll teach you differences.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
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Examine well your blood.
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The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
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Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.