"That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose."

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"I drink to the general joy o' the whole table."

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"The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And nature must obey necessity."

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"We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures."

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"Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout."

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"'T is a fault to Heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd."

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"Lady M. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we 'll not fail."

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"This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses."

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"Things without all remedy Should be without regard; what 's done is done."

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"Dwindle, peak, and pine."

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"O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!"

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"Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear."

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"But yesterday the word of Cæsar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence."

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"But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state."

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"Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death."

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"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."

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"Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more."

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"A little more than kin, and less than kind."

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"But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe."

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"Hor. It was, as I have seen it in his life, A sable silver'd."

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"Let it be tenable in your silence still."

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"I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman."

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"Dire combustion and confused events New hatch'd to the woful time."

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"O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason."

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"I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again."

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"I must become a borrower of the night For a dark hour or twain."

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"Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment?"

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"I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say "better"?"

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"Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, "They come!" our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn."

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"What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on 't?"

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"Live to be the show and gaze o' the time."

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"What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop?"

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"Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once."

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"The insane root That takes the reason prisoner."

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"The head is not more native to the heart."

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"Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth."

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"My fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in 't: I have supp'd full with horrors."

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"What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?"

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"The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of."

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"Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; 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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"The night is long that never finds the day."

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"Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear."

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"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

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"Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts: Dash him to pieces!"

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"In them Nature's copy 's not eterne."

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"And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature. Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings."

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"I pull in resolution, and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth: "Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane.""

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"Put a tongue In every wound of Cæsar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny."

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"But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless."

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"Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog."

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