William Shakespeare Quotes

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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.

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England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

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The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, and wonders At our quaint spirits.

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Time's the king of men;
He's both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave.

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And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

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Whose sore task
Does not divide the Sunday from the week.

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The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

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And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.

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Why should we pay tribute? If Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute for light; else, sir, no more tribute.

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Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am

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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

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First Witch: When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch: When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.

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Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O! that estates, degrees, and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honor Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer.

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Let us not burden our remembrances
With a heaviness that's gone.

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But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

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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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O father Abram! what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others.

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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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Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
And could of men distinguish her election,
Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.

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We go to gain a little patch of ground,
That hath in it no profit but the name.

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Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

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What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

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I dreamt my lady came and found me dead............ And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

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Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

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Pale prime-roses,
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength,—a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown imperial.

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