Best Quotes by William Shakespeare (Top 10)
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
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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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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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More William Shakespeare Quotes
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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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We know what we are, but not what we may be.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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Though she be but little, she is fierce!
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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
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They do not love that do not show their love.
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
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One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
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Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
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If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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What's done cannot be undone.
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What is past is prologue.
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Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
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But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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Sweets to the sweet.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.
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Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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All's well if all ends well.
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Nothing can come of nothing.
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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
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Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
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There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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Beware the ides of March.
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Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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Journeys end in lovers meeting.
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
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The best is yet to come.
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Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.
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Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
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Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
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Thought is free.
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Out, damned spot! out, I say!
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
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Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
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I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
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Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
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For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
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Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
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Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
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An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
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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.
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The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst.
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He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
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For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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I am wealthy in my friends.
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To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
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Strong reasons make strong actions.
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Such as we are made of, such we be.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
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I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
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The soul of this man is his clothes.
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
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Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.
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What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.
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When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies.
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
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Frailty, thy name is woman!
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A plague on both your houses.
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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
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A little more than kin, a little less than kind.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
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Foul whisperings are abroad
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Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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