William Shakespeare Quotes

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A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy.

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That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct
As water is in water

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Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe.

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The shadow of your sorrow hath destroyed
The shadow of your face.

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Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

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He had rather Groan so in perpetuity, than be cured By the sure physician, death.

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This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

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So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

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Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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It is the very error of the moon;
She comes more near the earth than she was wont,
And makes men mad.

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Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

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This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

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There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, But he's an arrant knave.

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I saw her once
Hop forty paces through the public street;
And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted
That she did make defect perfection,
And, breathless, power breathe forth.

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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store.

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He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

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You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.

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The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.

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The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description.

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There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

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By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

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Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

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When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

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