William Shakespeare quotes - page 74

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you To make it wander in an unknown field Are you a god would you create me new. (William Shakespeare)
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. View quote
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Vex not his ghost O let him pass he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. View quote
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So they lov'd, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none: Number there in love was slain. View quote
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And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; And their gross painting might be better used Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused. View quote
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The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. View quote
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Many can brook (endure) the weather that love not the wind. View quote
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Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. View quote
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Thyself shall see the act For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirst. View quote
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Come, give us a taste of your quality. View quote
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Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try. (William Shakespeare)
O God, I have an ill-divining soul! View quote
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Heaven would that she these gifts should have, And I to live and die her slave. View quote
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Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit. View quote
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Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, But give it way a while and let it waste. View quote
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Oh it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. View quote
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Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! View quote
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The purest treasure mortal time afford Is spotless reputation that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. View quote
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That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. View quote
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But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from who bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of. View quote
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It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, 'Thus diddest thou' (William Shakespeare)
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides. View quote
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O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,And by an by a cloud takes all away. View quote
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I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage. View quote
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That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. View quote
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William Shakespeare

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Occupation: English Playwright
Born: 1564
Died: April 23, 1616
Quotes count: 1879
Wikipedia: William Shakespeare

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