William Shakespeare Quotes
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He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.
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Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.
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Dreams are the children of idled minds.
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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The one I love is the son of the one I hate!
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Good wine needs no bush.
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Which means she to deceive, father or mother?
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.
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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!
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The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
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You are a tedious fool.
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Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
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A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
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Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.
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Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
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Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
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The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.
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I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.
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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
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Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.