"O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellions hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will."

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"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away."

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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

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"The rest is silence."

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"'T is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world."

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"His beard was as white as snow, All flaxen was his poll."

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"Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect."

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"Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend!"

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"They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live."

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"The story is extant, and writ in choice Italian."

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"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

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"A hit, a very palpable hit."

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"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."

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"The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire."

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"A dream itself is but a shadow."

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"They have a plentiful lack of wit."

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"Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all."

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"Come, my coach! Good night, sweet ladies; good night."

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"There 's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year."

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"The very age and body of the time his form and pressure."

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"Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty."

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"A king of shreds and patches."

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"And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff."

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"Although the last, not least."

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"O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword."

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"Springes to catch woodcocks."

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"This fell sergeant, death, Is strict in his arrest."

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"With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself."

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"Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!"

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"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."

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"This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!"

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"Pol. Very like a whale."

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"Ham. Words, words, words."

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"More matter, with less art."

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"O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables,--meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I 'm sure it may be so in Denmark."

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"Come, give us a taste of your quality."

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"A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks."

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"The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, A savageness in unreclaimed blood."

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"Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I 'll make a ghost of him that lets me!"

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"Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

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"Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung."

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"Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd."

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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

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"The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."

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"One fair daughter and no more, The which he loved passing well."

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"Ham. O, reform it altogether."

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"Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum."

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