The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.


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The human mortals. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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He hath eaten me out of house and home. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
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A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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'T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
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I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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Lord, what fools these mortals be! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
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The object of art is to give life a shape. Midsummer Nights Dream
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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: / For as ...
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Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? / He that hath cle...
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All that glisters is not gold;
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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life!
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Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he...
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I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives...
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Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
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BIBLE
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A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.
JAY WICKRE
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
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The measure of a man is not what is in his paycheck, but what is in his heart.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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