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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2
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Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3
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The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3
There's daggers in men's smiles.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3
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[Drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3
'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, sc. 1
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Things without all remedy should be without regard: What's done is done.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, sc. 2
His flight was madness: when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, sc. 2
There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, sc. 3
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
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What's done cannot be undone.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow... And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, sc. 3
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Blow, wind! Come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, sc. 5
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, sc.4
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 1
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 1
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 2
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 2
O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1

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