"Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too."
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"Good things should be praised."
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"A dream itself is but a shadow."
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"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*"
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"Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct."
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"I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume."
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"The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die"
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"Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents."
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"Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban"
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"When the mind's free, The Body's delicate."
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"You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense."
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"But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies."
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"I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)"
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"Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature."
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"Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday"
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"I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap"
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"Lovers ever run before the clock"
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"Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?"
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"They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them"
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"Love will not be spurred to what it loathes"
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