William Shakespeare Quotes

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I am ashamed that women are so simple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

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Let four captains
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally.

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Speak of them as they are; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice; then must you speak
Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well.

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I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee.

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My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

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As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart.

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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this center Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

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Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But bad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

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Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you
His absolute 'shall'?

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By telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.

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Find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.

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I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth.

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But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

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Banquo: Go not my horse the better,
I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain.

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Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.

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Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.

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I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.

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Every part about you blasted with antiquity.

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Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

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Crowned with rank fumitor and furrow weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.

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For now sits Expectation in the air
And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,
Promised to Harry and his followers.

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World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

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Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

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One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

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Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.

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The sands are number'd that make up my life;
Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

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As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That, that is, is."

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See, sons, what things you are!
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!

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