"Arm'd at point exactly, cap-a-pe."

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"In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets."

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"Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going."

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"A deed without a name."

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"A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."

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"The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell."

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"The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent."

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"The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe."

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"A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute."

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"O my prophetic soul! My uncle!"

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"No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning."

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"Ham. As woman's love."

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"Absent thee from felicity awhile."

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"Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature."

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"This is miching mallecho; it means mischief."

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"Pluck out the heart of my mystery."

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"I will speak daggers to her, but use none."

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"O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder."

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"O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!"

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"There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners."

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"A rhapsody of words."

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"A ministering angel shall my sister be."

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"Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day."

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"O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!"

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"A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue As I am glad I have not."

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"There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

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"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."

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"Sweets to the sweet: farewell!"

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"Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this."

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"Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works."

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"Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness."

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"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."

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"'T is as easy as lying."

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"Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes."

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"I am more an antique Roman than a Dane."

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"That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence."

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"Here 's metal more attractive."

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"Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her."

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"Though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I something in me dangerous."

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"Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh."

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"You must wear your rue with a difference. There 's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered."

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"Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I 'll have a suit of sables."

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"Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour 's at the stake."

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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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"Within the book and volume of my brain."

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"What 's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?"

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"Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause."

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"'T is the breathing time of day with me."

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"There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes?"

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"This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in."

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