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Hamlet

Book by William Shakespeare · 10 quotes · Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Death

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“¡Negro el designo, pronta la mano, dispuesto el veneno, propicia la hora, cómplice la ocasión, y sin testigos! ¡Violenta mixtura de venenosas plantas, arrancadas a medianoche, tres veces infecta, tres veces emponzoñada con la maldición de Hécate; que tus naturales virtudes mágicas y deletéreas le arranquen instantáneamente la vida en plena salud.”

“But that I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it, And nothing is at a like goodness still; For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too-much. That we would do We should do when we would. For this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents. And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.”

“To be, or not to be - that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep - No more - and by a sleep we say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep - To sleep - perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub.”