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If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear...


William Shakespeare

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Because of what we did back then
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A dance?
In th...
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it is time to dance.
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all you need is...
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it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas,...
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Amy: Just stop it!
Rory: Just think it throu...
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(This is al...
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One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?"<...
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this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
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this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE who did I think we were.
who did I think
I could make you.

this is the oldest m...
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And all the gain we get is grief and woe,
Then, lea...
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What its size,
will have varying
consequences. It’s not ...
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If you ever decide to feel— feel this:
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And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like ...
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Life is living in this moment,
experiencing and experimenting
but ex...
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but that is how we break
without falling apart.
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That's a salutation.
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That's a c...
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how often have you...
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God and I in space alone . . .
and nobody else in view . . .
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But, if we are wise, we know that...
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If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend,
If you’ve bu...
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“As long as I don’t have to cook it.”

He t...
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Of all that I have seen
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If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you'd like to w...
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I have tried na nika...
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“Clary? It’s me, Emma.”

“Oh, Emma, ...
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“I did, yeah.”
“I love it. I wouldn’t have t...
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And free our restless souls
Start to believe
Tha...
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And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
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But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

- ...
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that you never loved me.
And it's sad
because I don't think y...
SADE ANDRIA ZABALA Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
What have you done to my boy?
He's not flesh and blood, TIM BURTON But not you, O girl, nor yet his
mother,
stretched his eyebrows so fierce with
expe...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow
Never to woo her more, but do forswear her
As one u...
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Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas,...
JOHN STEINBECK Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
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For the Pennsylvania we never found,
For the promise...
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Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:
...
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Here’s another one for you.
But really, for me....
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
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The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the w...
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More than being strong and capable, we nee...
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TERESA LO DON'T SAY, DO


Do not say things
You think I want to hear.
Instead,
S...
SUZY KASSEM ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered thr...
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Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
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For time is but a space that is captured
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F.N.COLLIER Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
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Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
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We thi...
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You have the sinner’s grave
You have the saint’s earth
c...
MUNIA KHAN Let me say right now for the record,
I’m still going to be here
asking this world to dan...
ANDREA GIBSON Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
What is the hindrance to moving on?

Why in lov...
ZUBAIR AHSAN RON: Malfoy, you may be all chummy chummy with Harry, and you may have produced a relatively nice ch...
JACK THORNE Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are no...
EDGAR ALLAN POE as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You didn’t think I’d let you go alone, did you?”
“No, but I’m grateful that I had you...
COLLEEN HOUCK If you have time to chatter,
Read books.

If you have time to read,
Walk into mo...
NANAO SAKAKI What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
did ...
VIKRAM CHANDRA Where has God gone?” [the madman asked] “I shall tell you. We
have killed him – you and I...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw,
Here and there a patch of sn...
CHRISTOPHER PEARCE CRANCH Did you have friend?"
"I've read about them, but I don't believe they exist."
"Your cynici...
JODI MEADOWS I count it happiness,
Ere we go quickly thither whence we came,
To gaze ungrieving on these ma...
MENANDER The Rider

A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
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To Save Lives
If We Don't Take It
We May Regret It
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I’m tired of this struggle that leaves everythi...
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To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 We were not born to sue, but to command.
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