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"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"A beast, that wants discourse of reason."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

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"Great Cæsar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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"Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?"
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

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"Season your admiration for a while."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

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"Brutus. Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

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"See what a rent the envious Casca made."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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"I gin to be aweary of the sun."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5.

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"The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1.

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"All his faults observed, Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

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"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life 's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5.

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"There 's no art To find the mind's construction in the face."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4.

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"I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3.

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"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o' the building!"
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3.

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"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.

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"So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on 't."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 1.

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"The weird sisters."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1.

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"The time has been, That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

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"Infirm of purpose!"
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2.

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"Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!"
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

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"The heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 6.

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"A little month."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

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"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1.

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"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1.

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"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.

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"But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

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"This was the most unkindest cut of all."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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"The labour we delight in physics pain."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3.

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"There 's daggers in men's smiles."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3.

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"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

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"Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard?"
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1.

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"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!"
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1.

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"The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!"
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 3.

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"It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

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"For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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"Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

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"For this relief much thanks: 't is bitter cold, And I am sick at heart."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

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"Let every man be master of his time Till seven at night."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 1.

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"Banners flout the sky."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 2.

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"The memory be green."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

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"I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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"Memory, the warder of the brain."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.

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"This sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day."
William Shakespeare / Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

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"If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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"Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1.

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"There 's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1.

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"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war."
William Shakespeare / Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.

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"A thing of custom,--'t is no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

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"The air-drawn dagger."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

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"Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme."
William Shakespeare / Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

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