William Shakespeare - Hamlet

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Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

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Things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!

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Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

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There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, But he's an arrant knave.

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There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.

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Polonius: My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
Hamlet: You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal; except my life, except my life, except my life.

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I do not set my life at a pin's fee;
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?

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A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

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It is not, nor it cannot come to good;
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

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Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.

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Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
I took thee for thy better.

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How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world.

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The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

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I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair.

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Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

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Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.

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A politician... one that would circumvent God.

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I am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.

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Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.

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Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand,
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched;
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head:
O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!

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At your age
The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble.

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Find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.

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