William Shakespeare Quotes

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Thou [Death] setter up and plucker down of
kings.

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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

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My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.

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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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So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

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Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

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Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V

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Haply I think on thee,—and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate.

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I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

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With one auspicious and one dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole.

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And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

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Now 'tis the spring and weeds are shallow rooted; Suffer them now and they'll outgrow the garden And choke the herbs for lack of husbandry.

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In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.

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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

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So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

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Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

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Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt.

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For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

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The time and my intents are savage-wild,
More fierce and more inexorable far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

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And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

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You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

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True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

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Ever till now
When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.

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See how the morning opes her golden gates,
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!

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