O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?


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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...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
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...
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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.
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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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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 ...
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To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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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.
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
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Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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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.
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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.
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But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
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I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
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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.
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'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...
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My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
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For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
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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...
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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