"... I am At war 'twixt will and will not."
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William Shakespeare quotes (page 101 of 202)
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"To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy."
"Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse."
"I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark."
"The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure."
"Report me and my cause aright."
"Two may keep counsel putting one away!"
"No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather."
"The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state."
"Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse."
"Things past redress are now with me past care"
"No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?"
"What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?"
"No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell."
"Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!."
"Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die."
"Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward."
"Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent."
"Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome."
"Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have."