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This volume brings together a selection of Shakespeare's plays and poems, showcasing his enduring influence on English literature. It includes classic works such as 'Hamlet,' 'Romeo and Juliet,' and 'Macbeth,' as well as various sonnets and narrative poems. The collection offers readers a chance to explore the depth and complexity of Shakespeare's writing, highlighting his mastery of language and storytelling.
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“So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”
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“Thy friendship makes us fresh.”
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“And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd”
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“Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?”
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“My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was”
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“Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let
me die, for I have lived long enough.”
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“All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.”
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“Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”
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“Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!”
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“Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.”
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“Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.”
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“She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.”
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“And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.”
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“There's villainous news abroad.”
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“You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.”
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“Small to greater matters must give way.”
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“Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.”
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“I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.”
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“Thou art the Mars of malcontents.”
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“No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.”
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“No .... holy father, throw away that thought.
Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bosom.”
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“There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.”
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“This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.”
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“Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.”
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“Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.”
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“But I remember now
I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.”
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“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”
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“And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.”
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“The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.”
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“O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!”
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“When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.”
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“The fear's as bad as falling.”
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“If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not”
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“A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.”
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“No worse a husband than the best of men.”
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“This thought is as a death.”
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“For now they kill me with a living death.”
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“On pain of death, no person be so bold.”
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“Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.”
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“Death rock me asleep.”
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“Now the fair goddess, Fortune,
Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
Misguide thy opposers' swords!”
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“That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.”
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“Rest you fair, good signior;
Your worship was the last man in our mouths.”
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“Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!”
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“The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.”
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“O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”
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“I'll note you in my book of memory.”
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“Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man”
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“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.”
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“The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.”
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