William Shakespeare Quotes

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Be collected.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.

William Shakespeare
They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

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Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

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I do not know
What kind of my obedience I should tender.
More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes
More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
Are all I can return.

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I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.

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My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

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I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

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Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

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O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

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Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.

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Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

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If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

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Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

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But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,
Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

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But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

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Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
But where her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety.

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All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

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The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

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By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

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To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;
But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

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How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

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I have heard it said
There is an art which in their piedness shares
With great creating nature.

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

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Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
Yet hath my night of life some memory,
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.

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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

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Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

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They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

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