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.

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Hamlet: What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals.

line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Celia: I like this place, and willingly could waste my time in it.

line from the play As You Like It, Act II, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain,
But lust's effect is tempest after sun;
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not,; lust like a glutton dies,
Love is all truth; lust full of forged lies.

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

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Romeo: Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
Mercutio: If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

classic lines from the play Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1597)
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He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

William Shakespeare in Hamlet
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

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Hamlet: Madam, how like you this play?
Gertrude: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

lines from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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A Lover's Complaint

FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.

Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun,
Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
The carcass of beauty spent and done:
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.

Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laundering the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,

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Talbot: My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do.

line from Henry VI, Act I, Scene 5, script by William Shakespeare (1590)
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Fortinbras: Let four captains bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage; for he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally: and, for his passage, the soldiers' music and the rites of war speak loudly for him. Take up the bodies: such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

classic lines from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Like one who having into truth, by telling of it, made such a sinner of his memory, to credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare in The Tempest
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Antonio: The Hebrew will turn Christian. He grows kind.
Bassanio: I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

lines from the play The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

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Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

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King Claudius: Laertes, was your father dear to you?
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
A face without a heart?

line from the play Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 7, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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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.

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Third Gentleman: Like an old tale still, which will have matter to rehearse,
Though credit be asleep and not an ear open.

line from the play The Winter's Tale, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1610)
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