If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.


William Shakespeare

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
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If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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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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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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Though she be but little, she is fierce.
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What's done can't be undone.
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They say miracles are past.
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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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...
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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Now is the winter of our discontent.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
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And all the men and women merely players;
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Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
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Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
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man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
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I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
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So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
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The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
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Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
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Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
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And t...
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And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
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If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
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Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
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In my mind's eye, Horatio.
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
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Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
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O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
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Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever a...
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There's villainous news abroad.
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The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
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So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition-- ...
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
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He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, ...
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Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Tur...
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My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
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The proverb is something musty.
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice ...
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There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity (So it be new, there's no respect how vile) That is...
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Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
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All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; ...
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If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy...
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All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship d...
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
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The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.
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For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
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O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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Make not your thoughts you prisons.
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me...
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me? What can min...
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Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carri...
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To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
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The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and...
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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
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God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
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'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
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The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
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Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
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A little more than kin, and less than kind!
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
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Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
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Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
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How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE