William Shakespeare - Man Quotes

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There's place and means for every man alive.

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To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

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O mistress mine! where are you roaming?
O! stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

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

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Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

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Like a fair house built upon another man's ground.

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He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

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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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I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

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

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By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

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For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

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Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

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My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

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Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
They belch us.

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Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

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If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

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For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom: it is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty.

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Child Roland to the dark tower came,
His word was still, Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man.

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O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

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I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

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He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

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Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

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Rest you fair, good signior;
Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

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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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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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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.

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

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