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- Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
 
- What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
 
- When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 5
 
- Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7
 
- How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, sc. 1
 
- Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, sc. 1
 
- He will give the devil his due. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2
 
- The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2
 
- I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, sc. 4
 
- While you live tell truth and shame the devil. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act III, 1
 
- The better part of valour is discretion. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act V, 4
 
- But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act V, sc. 4
 
- See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act I, sc. 1
 
- O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
 
- A man can die but once. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act III, sc. 2
 
- Thy wish was father... to that thought. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act IV, 5
 
- The old folk, time's doting chronicles. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act IV, sc. 4
 
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 2, sc. 4
 
- As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark... so may a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, sc. 2
 
- Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, sc. 1
 
 
	
 
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