William Shakespeare Quotes

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Frame thy mind to mirth and merriment
which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

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The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories, once foil'd,
Is from the books of honor razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.

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You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

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I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.

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My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.

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And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

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I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any shoulder that I see
Before me at this instant.

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There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.

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He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

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

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Mine enemy's dog,
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire.

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All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

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This earth, that bears thee dead,
Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.

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Mine honor is my life; both grow in one;
Take honor from me, and my life is done.

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What must the king do now? Must he submit?
The king shall do it: must he be deposed?
The king shall be contented: must he lose
The name of king? o' God's name, let it go.

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Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.

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Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; Thought is free.

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All the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths.

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My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then!

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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest.

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The fold stands empty in the drowned field,
And crows are fatted with the murrain flock;
The nine men's morris is filled up with mud.

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For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

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She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

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To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.

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By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rime, and to be melancholy.

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'Let me not live', quoth he,
'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff
Of younger spirits.'

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But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

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Things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!

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