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"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused."
"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not."
"Come, Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell."
"A fool's bolt is soon shot."
"Fire that's closest kept burns most of all."
"Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare."
"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!"
"Ambition's debt is paid."
"O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)"
"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more."
"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
"If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved."
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
"So quick bright things come to confusion."
"Eternity was in our lips and eyes."
"What a deformed thief this fashion is."
"And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company."
"He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural."