William Shakespeare - Man Quotes

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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

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

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For to be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.

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O, I have pass'd a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days.

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See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.

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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

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See the minutes, how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.

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For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.

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Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.

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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

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All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

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There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

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So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

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They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

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The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause.

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Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.

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What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:

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There's place and means for every man alive.

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I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.

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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. Think not the king did banish thee, But thou the king.

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To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy.

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O, the difference of man and man!
To thee a woman's services are due.

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I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.

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As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

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Malcolm: Dispute it like a man.
Macduff: I shall do so;
But I must also feel it as a man:
I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me.

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Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again,
And all shall be well.

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In her days every man shall eat in safety
Under his own vine what he plants; and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.

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