William Shakespeare Quotes

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

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

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

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

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Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;
Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
Subjected tribute to commanding love,
Against whose fury and unmatched force
The aweless lion could not wage the fight
Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

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So many hours must I take my rest;
So many hours must I contemplate.

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A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow. But a good heart...is the sun and moon...for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly.

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Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

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God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

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The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.

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Hang up philosophy!
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet.

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Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.

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See! Antony, that revels long o' nights,
Is notwithstanding up.

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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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