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- The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right! 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, sc. 5
 
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, sc. 5
 
- An old man is twice a child. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
 
- Doubt that the stars are fire; 
  Doubt that the sun doth move;   Doubt truth to be a liar;   But never doubt I love.  - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
 
- I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
 
- The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
 
- There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
 
- Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
 
- Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
 
- Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth, but poor validity. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
 
- The glass of fashion and the mould of form 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
 
- The undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
 
- Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
 
- This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change.  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.  - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
 
- Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
 
- I must be cruel, only to be kind. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 4
 
- Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 4
 
- A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 3
 
- He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 3
 
- A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
 
 
	
 
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