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King Lear (1608)
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
The gods themselves throw incense.
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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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O reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's.
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I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you
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Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone forever.
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Child Roland to the dark tower came,
His word was still, Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man.
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
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Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not.
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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face.
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Lear:
So young, and so untender?
Cordelia:
So young, my lord, and true.
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No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head!
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I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any shoulder that I see
Before me at this instant.
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Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!
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O, sir! you are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine.
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He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
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Lear:
We'll go to supper i'th'morning.
Fool:
And I'll go to bed at noon.
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And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.
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Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:
Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!
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I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.
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A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
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The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Daniel Boone
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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