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"All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral-- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary."
"Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring."
"My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist."
"They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?"
"The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor."
"Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy."
"it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee"
"What are you doing sister? / Killing swine."
"When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!"
"If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied."
"So fair and foul a day i had not seen."
"And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare."
"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
"A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?"
"Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end."
"The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea."
"I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I."
"Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions."
"See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live."
"Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will."