William Shakespeare - Night Quotes

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Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.

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Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

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Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

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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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O conspiracy!
Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,
When evils are most free?

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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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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

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The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

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Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

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What! is Brutus sick,
And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
To dare the vile contagion of the night?

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The moon shines bright: in such a night as this…
Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls,
And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents,
Where Cressid lay that night.

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It faded on the crowing of the cock.
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad.

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Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

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Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

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Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
Do summon us to part, and bid good night.

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What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
O weary reckoning!

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In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

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'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.

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Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

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Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others' books.
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star,
Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.

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As I hope
For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion
Our worser genius can, shall never melt
Mine honour into lust, to take away
The edge of that day's celebration,
When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd
Or Night kept chain'd below.

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Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

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Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale.

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Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere, to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.

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Day doth daily draw my sorrow's longer,
And night doth nightly make grief's length seem longer.

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This will last out a night in Russia,
When nights are longest there.

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How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!

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When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.

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Mine enemy's dog,
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire.

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