William Shakespeare Quotes

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Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
Attend your office and your quality.

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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.

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Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together

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For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...

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It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

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Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

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I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

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Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

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The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

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Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground

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Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

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The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

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What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

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A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.

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I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world,
If they will patiently receive my medicine.

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Which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?

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With purple fountains issuing from your veins.

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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
But more when envy breeds unkind division:
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

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Flesh and blood,
You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-
Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-
Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art.

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France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

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Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray,
And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

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For conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
For me to try how.

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What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

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So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

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Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

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The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death.

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