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O, speak to me no more; these words like daggers enter my ears.
A fancy way of saying SHUT UP!
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I am thy father's spirit;
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night.
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But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
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There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O! you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. They say he made a good end,— For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
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Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
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I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not have strew'd thy grave.
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No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
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To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
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Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion, — Have you a daughter? Polonius: I have, my lord. Hamlet: Let her not walk i' the sun.
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There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.
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Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy.
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But to my mind,—though I am native here,
And to the manner born,—it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
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Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
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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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Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
I took thee for thy better.
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The curse of marriage
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites!
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
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O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't;
A brother's murder!
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How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd.
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I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
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O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew;
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
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Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
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And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
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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 ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfilled,
That Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are dead.
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William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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