Dauphin: Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

classic line from Henry V by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Claudio: Death is a fearful thing.

line from the play Measure for Measure, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1604)
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Duke Vincentio: Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

classic line from the play Measure for Measure, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1604)
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Lucio: Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

classic line from the play Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1604)
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare in Hamlet
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Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye

Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye,
And all my soul, and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
And for my self mine own worth do define,
As I all other in all worths surmount.
But when my glass shows me myself indeed
Beated and chapped with tanned antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite contrary I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
'Tis thee, myself, that for my self I praise,
Painting my age with beauty of thy days.

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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

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King Henry: Things done well,
And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
Things done without example, in their issue
Are to be fear'd.

classic line from the play Henry VIII, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1613)
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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester): Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

classic line from Henry VI, Act V, Scene 6, script by William Shakespeare (1590)
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Enobarbus: To be furious is to be frighted out of fear.

classic line from the play Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene 13, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not

Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not,
When I against my self with thee partake?
Do I not think on thee when I forgot
Am of my self, all tyrant, for thy sake?
Who hateth thee that I do call my friend?
On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon?
Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not spend
Revenge upon my self with present moan?
What merit do I in my self respect,
That is so proud thy service to despise,
When all my best doth worship thy defect,
Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?
But, love, hate on, for now I know thy mind:
Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind.

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Sonnet 4

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?
Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,
Which, used, lives th' executor to be.

poem by William Shakespeare from Sonnets (1609)
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Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way

But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time,
And fortify your self in your decay
With means more blessèd than my barren rhyme?
Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
And many maiden gardens yet unset,
With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
So should the lines of life that life repair
Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
Can make you live your self in eyes of men.
To give away your self keeps your self still,
And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

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Pompey: Come, fear not you: good counsellors lack no clients.

classic lines from Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1604)
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Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any

For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any
Who for thy self art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident;
For thou art so possessed with murd'rous hate,
That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
O, change thy thought, that I may change my mind!
Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?
Be as thy presence is gracious and kind,
Or to thy self at least kind-hearted prove,
Make thee another self, for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.

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Player Queen: Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

classic line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Duke of Norfolk: Anger is like
A full-hot horse, who being allow’d his way,
Self-mettle tires him.

classic line from the play Henry VIII, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1613)
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Kent: It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our conditions. Else one self mate and mate could not beget such different issues.

classic line from the play King Lear, Act IV, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Charmian: Tempt him not so too far. I wish, forbear.
In time we hate that which we often fear.

classic line from the play Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave

That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure!
O, let me suffer, being at your beck,
Th' imprisoned absence of your liberty,
And patience tame to sufferance, bide each check,
Without accusing you of injury.
Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you your self may privilage your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Your self to pardon of self-doing crime.
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.

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