I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.
What if this cursed hand_x000D_ _x000D_ Were thicker than itself with brother's blood_x000D_ _x000D_ Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves_x000D_ _x000D_ To wash it white as snow?
The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
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