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William Shakespeare

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 preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works,...

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...O brave new world, That has such people in't!

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!-Miranda Act V, scene i

x Author:: William Shakespeare

x Source:: The Tempest

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First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

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x Source:: Henry VI, part 2

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.

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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

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I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.

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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

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I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.

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How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.

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Why should honor outlive honesty?

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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

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Report me and my cause aright.

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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

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Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

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We were not born to sue, but to command.

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The object of art is to give life a shape.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in it

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Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?

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I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

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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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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

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When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

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For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

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Nothing will come of nothing.

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Bow, stubborn knees!

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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

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Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.

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She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

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Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

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Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

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He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

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Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

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I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

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For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

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Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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Remembrance of things past.

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted.

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Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

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Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

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I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

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