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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Poet · English · 1564 – 1616

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Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
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Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
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Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
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He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.
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One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
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One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
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How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?
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ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.
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Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
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Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
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When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.
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Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.
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The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
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As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
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Full fathom five thy father lies;_x000D_ Of his bones are coral made;_x000D_ Those are pearls that were his eyes;_x000D_ Nothing of him that doth fade,_x000D_ But doth suffer a sea-change_x000D_ Into something rich and strange._x000D_ Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:_x000D_ Ding-dong._x000D_ Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
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