"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."
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"His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth"
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"King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar."
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"If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage."
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"One sees more devils than vast hell can hold"
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"How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!"
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"Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!"
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"Be not afraid of greatness."
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"Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves."
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"The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture."
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"Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!"
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"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further."
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"Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!"
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"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
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"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."
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"The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts."
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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"Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
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"All the world's a stage."
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"And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony."
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