"An hour before the worshipp'd sun Peered forth the golden window of the east."

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"These violent delights have violent ends."

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"Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."

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"He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men."

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"The common curse of mankind,--folly and ignorance."

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"Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so father'd and so husbanded?"

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"Stands Scotland where it did?"

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"When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith."

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"Whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week."

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"Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage."

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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."

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"Shut up In measureless content."

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"I 'll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round."

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"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!"

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"I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world."

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"I had most need of blessing, and "Amen" Stuck in my throat."

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"My little spirit, see, Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me."

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"Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!"

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"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are."

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"Macb. Throw physic to the dogs: I 'll none of it."

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"Nor time nor place Did then adhere."

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"When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors."

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"Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."

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"And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope."

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"His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!""

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"The foremost man of all this world."

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"The earth hath bubbles as the water has, And these are of them."

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"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell."

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"What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win."

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"I 'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate."

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"How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!"

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"With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole."

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"So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill."

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"A deed of dreadful note."

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"We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it."

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"Mac. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men."

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"Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid."

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"A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd."

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"Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

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"In my mind's eye, Horatio."

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"Why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on."

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"Like Niobe, all tears."

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"Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!"

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"While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred."

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"That it should come to this!"

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"He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."

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"'T is the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil."

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"Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom."

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"Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart!"

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"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not."

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