"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't."

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"Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly."

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"All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."

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"I only speak right on."

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"Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!"

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"And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons."

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"Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast."

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"Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'T is not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black."

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"Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we 'll die with harness on our back."

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"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red."

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"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

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"Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me."

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"I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er."

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"It is not nor it cannot come to good."

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"In the dead vast and middle of the night."

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"Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence!"

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"Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead."

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"Stands not within the prospect of belief."

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"O, I could play the woman with mine eyes And braggart with my tongue."

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"Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 't were a careless trifle."

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"Gave it an understanding, but no tongue."

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"What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,-- Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble."

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"Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!""

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"I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people."

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"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

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"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me."

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"Who is here so base that would be a bondman?"

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"My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules."

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"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding."

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"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's In deepest consequence."

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"Nothing is But what is not."

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"I bear a charmed life."

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"L. Macb. Almost at odds with morning, which is which."

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"My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not."

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"Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn."

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"You yourself Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm."

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"If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not."

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"Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve."

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"You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admir'd disorder."

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"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."

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"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

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"More is thy due than more than all can pay."

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"Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed."

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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

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"2 W. When the hurlyburly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won."

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"When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

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"What private griefs they have, alas, I know not."

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"It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night."

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"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

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"The attempt and not the deed Confounds us."

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