William Shakespeare - Life Quotes

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I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

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Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand,
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched;
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head:
O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!

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So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end

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Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror

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Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
Nor age so eat up my invention,
Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
But they shall find awaked in such a kind
Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
Ability in means, and choice of friends,
To quit me of them throughly.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

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O reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come.

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There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

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Hamlet: His beard was grizzled, no?
Horatio: It was, as I have seen it in his life,
A sable silver'd.

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Were my wife's liver Infected as her life, she would not live The running of one glass.

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The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.

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I could be well content
To entertain the lag-end of my life
With quiet hours.

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My fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in 't. I have supp'd full with horrors.

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This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise.

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All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!

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There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

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I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.'

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A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

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There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

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Mine honor is my life; both grow in one;
Take honor from me, and my life is done.

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My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

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To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

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Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

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I dreamt my lady came and found me dead............ And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

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There is no sure foundation set on blood,
No certain life achiev'd by others' death.

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Still question'd me the story of my life From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes That I have pass'd.

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