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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Poet · English · 1564 – 1616

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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
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She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.
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My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.
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Art made tongue-tied by authority.
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He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
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But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
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it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
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My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
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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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If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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I would there were no age between sixteen 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 ancientry, stealing, fighting
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Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
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And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do
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All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
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I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
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So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-_x000D_ _x000D_ Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-_x000D_ _x000D_ Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,_x000D_ _x000D_ But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.
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