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““You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[...] What cares these roarers for the name of king?””

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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

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O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my…

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Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with…

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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

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Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

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“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)”

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Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

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Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

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“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

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“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

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“Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in love? If so, is it the kind that Mum and Dad have? Based on having things in common, like raspberry picking and a love of dogs, and Shakespeare, and long country walks? Or is it the knock-you-out, eat-you-up,…

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“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, - Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, - A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.”

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