William Shakespeare Quotes

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A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me.

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Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

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The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,
And thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! The charm's wound up.

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Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

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For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

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Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

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Consideration like an angel came,
And whipped the offending Adam out of him.

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For nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

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Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
thou learn a prayer without book.

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I would to God my name were not so terrible to the enemy as it is: I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

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A sad tale's best for winter.
I have one of sprites and goblins.

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Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

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I am amaz'd, methinks, and lose my way Among the thorns and dangers of this world.

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You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.

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To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus.

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That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.

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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

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Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.

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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

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Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

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If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, Honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

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Tut, tut, good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better.

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God shield us!—a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living.

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If we are marked to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

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