William Shakespeare - Life Quotes

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

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I love a ballad in print, a-life, for then we are sure they are true.

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I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

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

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No, by my soul, I never in my life
Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
Unless a brother should a brother dare
To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

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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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Had I but died an hour before this chance I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality, All is but toys; renown and grace is dead, The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

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Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building!

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O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

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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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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
A lad of life, an imp of fame,
Of parents good, of fist most valiant:
I kiss his dirty shoe, and from my heart-string
I love the lovely bully.

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

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Ten masts make not the altitude
Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
Thy life's a miracle.

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LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

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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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So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend it or be rid on 't.

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Claudio: Death is a fearful thing.
Isabella: And shamed life a hateful.
Claudio: Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot.

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Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep,' the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.

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For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

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My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

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World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

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'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall. I not deny,
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.

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The sands are number'd that make up my life;
Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

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

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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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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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