William Shakespeare Quotes
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The past is prologue.
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If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
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A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!
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Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.
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Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
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Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.
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Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]
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Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.
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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
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For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
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Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
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I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.
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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.
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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
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And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
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Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
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what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes
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Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
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Let him smell his way to Dover!
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Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
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Courage mounteth with occasion.
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
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