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William Shakespeare
Thou hast most...
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
What stronger breastplate...
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but...
Could I come...
Could I come near your beauty with my nails
I'd set my ten commandments in your face.
Forbear to judge,...
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Source: Henry VI, Pt. 2, III, iii.
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Smooth runs the...
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Source: Henry VI, Pt II, III. i....
Gives not the...
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich...
O God! methinks...
O God! methinks it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do...
Stay we no...
Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown,
But sound the trumpets, and about our task.
A little fire...
A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
And now what...
And now what rests but that we spend the time
With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,
Such as befits the...
Come, and take...
Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow.
Source:...
If I do...
If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!
If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
That I may slumber...
The eagle suffers...
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
If one good...
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
Source:...
He lives in...
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
Source: Titus Andronicus, I. i....
Beauty itself doth...
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.
Source:...
For greatest scandal...
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Source: The Rape of Lucrece,...
And now this...
And now this pale swan in her watery nest
Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending.
Time's glory is...
Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.
And so to...
And so to publish Tarquin's foul offence:
Which being done with speedy diligence,
The Romans plausibly did give...