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Item, I give unto my wife my second best bed, with the furniture.

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Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side, come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice
Cry, 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

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One Pinch, a hungry lean-fac'd villain,
A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller,
A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch,
A living-dead man.

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I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.

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O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.

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To see sad sights moves more than hear them told.

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This was the noblest Roman of them all;
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He only in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man!'

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My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

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No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

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O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention;
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene.

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste.

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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

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Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

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I do know of these,
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing.

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Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue?

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Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.

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Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

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For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing and singing of anthems.

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It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern'st good-night.

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Wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.

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The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

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'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban,
Has a new master—Get a new man.

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The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.

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Lady Macbeth: Things without all remedy
Should Be Without Regard: what's done is done.
Macbeth: We have scotched the snake, not killed it:
She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice
Remains in danger of her former tooth.

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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

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So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

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Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

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