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Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead.
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O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical.
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O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.
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O good old man! how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win:
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Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.
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Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.
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How much more elder art thou than thy looks!
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Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet I do fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
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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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Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
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Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath.
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails.
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O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
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I must obey; his art is of such power,
It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
And make a vassal of him.
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Discuss unto me; art thou officer?
Or art thou base, common and popular?
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O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven
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I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O! had I but followed the arts!
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Speak, what trade art thou?
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What does thou with thy best apparel on?
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Moth:
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
Costard:
O! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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