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“Ay,sir;to be honest,as this world goes,is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”
“What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?Or to the dreadful summit of the cliffThat beetles o'er his base into the sea,And there assume some other horrible formWhich might deprive your sovere...”
“If it be now, tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will comethe readiness is all.”
“Theres a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will”
“Frailty, thy name is woman!A little month, or ere those shoes were oldWith which she follow'd my poor father's body,Like Niobe, all tears:”
“Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love”
“But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage.”
“The single and peculiar mind is boundWith all the strength and armor of the mindTo keep itself from noyance, but much moreThat spirit upon whose weal depends and restsThe lives of many. The cess of...”
“The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.”
“To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
“How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand menThat for a fan...”
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
“Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forged process of my deathRankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy ...”
“He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.”
“It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.”
“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capabi...”
“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
“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, ...”
