Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
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The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
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Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
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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