William Shakespeare Short Quotes

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Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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The cankers of a calm world and a long peace.

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This night methinks is but the daylight sick.

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One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.

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My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.

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This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so.

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O! what a war of looks was then between them.

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To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus.

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Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels.

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The gods sent not Corn for the rich men only.

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Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.

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For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

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He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

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Let them hang themselves in their own straps.

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So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!

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But when he performs astronomers foretell it.

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The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

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What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?

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Things past redress are now with me past care.

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Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down.

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Thou hast done a deed whereat valor will weep.

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On the sudden
A Roman thought hath struck him.

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Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.

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A politician... one that would circumvent God.

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The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

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Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!

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He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.

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Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

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Some say the Earth was feverous and did shake.

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