William Shakespeare - Hamlet

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Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,
Bear 't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

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I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

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There with fantastic garlands did she come,
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.

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My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.

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One fair daughter and no more,
The which he loved passing well.

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

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The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observ'd of all observers!

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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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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But in the gross and scope of my opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

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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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Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?

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O! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters … I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.

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Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
And now I'll do 't: and so he goes to heaven;
And so I am reveng'd.

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A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks.

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A politician... one that would circumvent God.

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Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

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Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

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Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.

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How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

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For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold
And I am sick at heart.

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While memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

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Indeed this counsellor
Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
Who was in life a foolish prating knave.

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There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.

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The dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea.

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Distill'd
Almost to jelly with the act of fear.

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What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

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A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,
As kill a king, and marry with his brother.

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