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An English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Here are some famous quotes by William Shakespeare.
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That that is is.
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Action is eloquence.
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This too shall pass.
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The rest is silence.
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Sweets to the sweet.
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The play's the thing.
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Making night hideous.
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Ay every inch a king.
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God grant us patience!
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Boldness be my friend.
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I am dying Egypt dying.
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The people are the city.
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The insolence of office.
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Time is the king of men.
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What's past is prologue.
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O war! thou son of Hell!
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A light heart lives long.
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We cannot all be masters.
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And thereby hangs a tale.
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The time is out of joint.
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Frailty thy name is woman!
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Help me Cassius or I sink!
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Are you good men and true?
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Talkers are no good doers.
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My man's as true as steel.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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A fool's bolt is soon shot.
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I am wealthy in my friends.
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The cunning livery of hell.
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The ides of March are come.
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Every why hath a wherefore.
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Much rain wears the marble.
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I dote on his very absence.
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What's done can't be undone.
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An old man is twice a child.
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He that dies pays all debts.
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Foul whisperings are abroad.
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The ripest fruit first falls.
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A plague o' both your houses.
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O shame! Where is they blush?
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More in sorrow than in anger.
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Parting is such sweet sorrow.
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Sweets to the sweet; farewell!
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There's a time for all things.
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Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)
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Courage mounteth with occasion.
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He will give the devil his due.
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There's villainous news abroad.
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I must be cruel only to be kind.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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What is the city but the people?
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Sweet are the uses of adversity.
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Lord what fools these mortals be!
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My heart is ever at your service.
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Such as we are made of such we be.
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Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.
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The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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These blessed candles of the night.
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The soul of this man is his clothes.
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Now is the Winter of our discontent.
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How use doth breed a habit in a man!
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I to myself am dearer than a friend.
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Thy wish was father to that thought.
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If I lose mine honour I lose myself.
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God befriend us as our cause is just!
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One man in his time plays many parts.
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I shall not look upon his like again.
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
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Ships are but boards sailors but men.
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If music be the food of love play on.
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
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As full of spirit as the month of May.
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O call back yesterday bid time return.
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Conscience does make cowards of us all.
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He is well paid that is well satisfied.
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He hath eaten me out of house and home.
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
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But for my own part it was Greek to me.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all.
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To take arms against a sea of troubles.
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For I can raise no money by vile means.
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The better part of valour is discretion.
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The miserable have no medicine but hope.
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
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Forbear to judge for we are sinners all.
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Let them obey that know not how to rule.
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Make use of time let not advantage slip.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.
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To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
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I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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To be or not to be: that is the question.
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Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
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This above all: to thine own self be true.
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The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
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Beggar that I am I am even poor in thanks.
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With the sleep of dreams comes nightmares.
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A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
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Every man has his fault and honesty is his.
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At little more than kin and less than kind.
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
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To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
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Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.
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O sleep O gentle sleep Nature's soft nurse.
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If you have tears prepare to shed them now.
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It's not enough to speak but to speak true.
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Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.
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Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
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I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.
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'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
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The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
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Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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'Tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.
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We are time's subjects and time bids be gone.
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Things past redress are now with me past care.
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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
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Sweets with sweets war not joy delights in joy.
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What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
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The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
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We know what we are but know not what we may be.
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The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.
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Though this be madness yet there is method in 't.
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The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.
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Love sought is good but given unsought is better.
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A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.
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To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
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God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.
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Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
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Past and to come seems best; things present worst.
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
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Men are April when they woo December when they wed.
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Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
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The world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
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What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.
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I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death.
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Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
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Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
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He does it with a better grace but I do it more natural.
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Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest.
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Though I am not naturally honest I am sometimes by chance.
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God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.
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The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
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I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
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Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.
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The worst is not so long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
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Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
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The worst is not sSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
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A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
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Double double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support him after.
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Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
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But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
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O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
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All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players.
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What cannot be avoided t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.
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To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.
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My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
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When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!
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The lunatic the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.
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Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
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Her voice was ever soft Gentle and low an excellent thing in woman.
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There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
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For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all all honourable men.
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For some must watch while some must sleep; thus runs the world away.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.
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Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.
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Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
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That he is mad 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.
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Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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Tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
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He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.
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For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.
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There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
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The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!
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When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.
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Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them - but not for love.
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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
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This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.
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For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
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If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman therefore to be won.
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His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up
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Fairies black grey green and white You moonshine revellers and shades of night.
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Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither; ripeness is all.
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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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Fishes live in the sea as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at; I am not what I am.
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A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!
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Murder most foul as in the best it is; But this most foul strange and unnatural.
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The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
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Many strokes though with a little axe Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
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How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
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Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
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Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
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What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
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And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But in the less foul profanation.
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My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
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Ay sir; to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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My words fly up my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.
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Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy.
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Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
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There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
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Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word the word to the action.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
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He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
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We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.
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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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Give every man thine ear but few thy voice; Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
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I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
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Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
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Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.
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I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
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True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.
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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
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Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
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Taffeta phrases silken terms precise Three-piled hyperboles spruce affectation Figures pedantical.
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The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.
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If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly into which love hast made thee run though hast not loved.
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Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get; and what thou hast forget'est.
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A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
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We few we happy few we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother.
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.
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But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
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If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.
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I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
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The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
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Sigh no more ladies sigh no more Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy; rich not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
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Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.
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His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!
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I earn that I eat get that I wear owe no man hate envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good content with my harm.
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This above all: to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man.
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Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves and therefore are they very dangerous.
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But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there And none so poor to do him reverence.
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The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.
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Men are April when they woo December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
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Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though lock'd up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
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And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
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All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.
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When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
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To sleep! perchance to dream; ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.
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O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
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To die: - to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
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This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab Ingratitude more strong than traitor's arm Quite vanquish'd him; then burst his mighty heart.
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Sleep that knits up the ravell'd slave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
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All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts his acts being seven ages.
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Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
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No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.
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O gentle Romeo If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo: but else not for the world.
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Eye of newt and toe of frog Wool of bat and tongue of dog Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting Lizard's leg and owlet's wing For a charm of powerful trouble Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
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If music be the food of love play on; Give me excess of it that surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound.
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To be or not to be that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them?
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse - As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
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Give me my Romeo; and when he shall die. Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
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Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word.
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
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I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands organs dimensions senses affections passions? fed with die same food hurt with the same weapons subject to the same diseases healed by the same means warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is?
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The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea.
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What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no nor woman neidier though by your smiling you seem to say so.
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Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure age is full of care; Youth like summer morn age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave age like winter bare. Youth is full sport age's breath is short; Youth is nimble age is lame; Youth is hot and bold age is weak and cold; Youth is wild age is tame. Age I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee.
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Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.