William Shakespeare Quotes

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To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

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There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

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I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

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It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

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A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

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My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

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I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.

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O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

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So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

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What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows?

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Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
My presence, like a robe pontifical,
Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state,
Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

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The glorious sun, Stays in his course and plays the alchemist, Turning with splendor of his precious eye The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold.

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For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard.

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If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.

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Now 'tis the spring and weeds are shallow rooted; Suffer them now and they'll outgrow the garden And choke the herbs for lack of husbandry.

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The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor.

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Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

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If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

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I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

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Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

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What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

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Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

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Pleasure and revenge
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision.

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Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise

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Besides, they are our outward consciences,
And preachers to us all, admonishing
That we should drew us fairly for our end.

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Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

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For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

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You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.

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