A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
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Quotes from Plays
Work: The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
Subject:
Time
Quotes from Plays
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Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
Subject:
Wisdom
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Subject:
Conversation
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How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
Subject:
Patience
Work:
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The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us.
Subject:
Action
Quotes from Plays
Work: Macbeth", Act 2 scene 2
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Out, damned spot! out, I say!
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Quotes from Plays
Work: Macbeth", Act 5 scene 1
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Subject:
Honesty
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Subject:
Time
Quotes from Plays
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
Subject:
Quotes from Plays
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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
Subject:
Silence
Work: Much Ado about Nothing, Act 2 scene 1
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Subject:
Vices
Work: King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
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Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
Subject:
Sanity
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I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Subject:
Stupidity
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I have
Immortal longings in me.
Subject:
Immortality
Work: Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2
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This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
Subject:
England
Work: King John", Act 5 scene 7
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
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Quotes from Plays
Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2
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How use doth breed a habit in a man.
Subject:
Habits
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I have not slept one wink.
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Quotes from Plays
Work: Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 4
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