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King Lear (1608)
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Kent:
Is this the promised end?
Edgar:
Or image of that horror?
Albany:
Fall and cease?
William Shakespeare
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I am a man
More sinn'd against than sinning.
William Shakespeare
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Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savor but themselves.
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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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I am a very foolish, fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
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Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
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I want that glib and oily art
To speak and purpose not.
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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face.
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Gloucester:
Is't not the king?
Lear:
Ay, every inch a king.
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O, sir! you are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine.
William Shakespeare
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Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops.
William Shakespeare
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Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!
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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare
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I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.
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She that herself will sliver and disbranch
From her material sap, perforce must wither
And come to deadly use.
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Contending with the fretful elements;
Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,
Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,
That things might change or cease.
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Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
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Edmund the base
Shall top th'legitimate – : I grow, I prosper;
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
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Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come; unbutton here.
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Now, our joy,
Although our last, not least.
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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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I will do such things,—
What they are yet I know not,—but they shall be
The terrors of the earth.
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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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Mine enemy's dog,
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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