William Shakespeare Quotes
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DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.
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To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
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The due of honor in no point omit.
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There's a time for all things.
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Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.
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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
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Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
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Hang him, swaggering rascal!
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The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
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Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.
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Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
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O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?
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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
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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.