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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Poet · English · 1564 – 1616

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My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
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O, what damned minutes tells he o'er_x000D_ _x000D_ Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!
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No .... holy father, throw away that thought._x000D_ _x000D_ Believe not that the dribbling dart of love_x000D_ _x000D_ Can pierce a complete bosom.
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You are my true and honourable wife;_x000D_ _x000D_ As dear to me as the ruddy drops_x000D_ _x000D_ That visit my sad heart.
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Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.
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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.
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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
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Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.
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Words to deeds cold breath gives.
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Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
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These blessed candles of the night.
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Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
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My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
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Though inclination be as sharp as will,_x000D_ _x000D_ My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,_x000D_ _x000D_ And, like a man to double business bound,_x000D_ _x000D_ I stand in pause where I shall first begin,_x000D_ _x000D_ And both neglect.
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds _x000D_ _x000D_ Admit impediments: love is not love _x000D_ _x000D_ Which alters when it alteration finds.
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This England never did, nor never shall, _x000D_ _x000D_ Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
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Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
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