William Shakespeare Quotes
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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
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I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
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Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.
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What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
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it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
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Time does not have the same appeal for every one
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Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.
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Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.
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Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.
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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
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You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
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Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.
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Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.
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Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
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O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!
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Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
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Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!
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I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
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Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.