In honor of the Bard’s 451st birthday.
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2. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
—Hamlet in Hamlet
3. "From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world."
—Berowne in Love's Labor's Lost
4. "The wheel is come full circle: I am here."
—Edmund in King Lear
5. "All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts."
—Jaques in As You Like It
6. "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
—Escalus in Measure for Measure
7. "I burn, I pine, I perish."
—Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew
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9. "This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
—Polonius in Hamlet
10. "Come, let's away to prison;
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news."
—Lear in King Lear
11. "They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol'n the scraps."
—Moth in Love's Labor's Lost
12. "I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety."
—Boy in Henry V
13. "For your brother and my sister no sooner
met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they
loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner
sighed, but they asked one another the reason; no
sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy."
—Rosalind in As You Like It
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