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But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;
Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,
My custom always of the afternoon.

William Shakespeare

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneled,
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.

William Shakespeare

Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

William Shakespeare

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

William Shakespeare

While memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I 'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

William Shakespeare

Within the book and volume of my brain.

William Shakespeare

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables,--meet it is I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain:
At least I 'm sure it may be so in Denmark.

William Shakespeare

Ham. There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
But he's an arrant knave.
Hor. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.

William Shakespeare

Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.

William Shakespeare

Art thou there, truepenny?
Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage.

William Shakespeare

O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

William Shakespeare

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!

William Shakespeare

The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed blood.

William Shakespeare

This is the very ecstasy of love.

William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

More matter, with less art.

William Shakespeare

That he is mad, 't is true: 't is true 't is pity;
And pity 't is 't is true.

William Shakespeare

Find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.

William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

William Shakespeare

Still harping on my daughter.

William Shakespeare

Pol. What do you read, my lord?
Ham. Words, words, words.

William Shakespeare

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

William Shakespeare

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