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What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.
O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.
I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise
Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.
Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.
I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)
Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.
Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.