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“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should
sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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“It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant

(Isabella)”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

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“The world must be peopled!”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

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“Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

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“The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

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“I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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“No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”

William Shakespeare Richard II

Variant: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Source: Richard II

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“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

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“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.”

William Shakespeare Coriolanus

Source: Coriolanus

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“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

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“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

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“And nothing is, but what is not.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

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“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

William Shakespeare Richard II

Source: Richard II

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“I am your wife if you will marry me.
If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

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“Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.
-Benedick (Much Ado)”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

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“Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Goblin, lead them up and down”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream