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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Life, Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65

Ambition's debt is paid.

William Shakespeare
Ambition, Debt, Paid
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 83

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

William Shakespeare
Honest, Poor, My Friends
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.758, Wordsworth Editions

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Eagles, Lovers
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

William Shakespeare
Love, Life, Family
1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

William Shakespeare
Money, Taken, Wealth
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 39

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, World, Sides
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3289, BookCaps Study Guides

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

William Shakespeare
Mathematical

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare
Witty, Atheist, Memorable
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.59

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

William Shakespeare
Death, Suicide, Dream
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

What's done can't be undone.

William Shakespeare
Done, Undone
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [74]

Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

William Shakespeare
Fairness, Happy Hour, Hours
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.197

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

William Shakespeare
Circles, Water, Glory
William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

William Shakespeare
Love, Romantic, Age

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

William Shakespeare
Vanity, Favors, Persons

Highly fed and lowly taught.

William Shakespeare
Taught, Feds
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.228

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Fire, Coal
1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 65, l.387-8.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Money, Important
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Venice, Laughing
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

Time does not have the same appeal for every one

William Shakespeare
Doe, Appeals

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

William Shakespeare
Life Is Short, Long, Shortness Of Life
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 2, l. 81

I'll note you in my book of memory.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Book, Notes
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.66

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Memories, Inspiration

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

William Shakespeare
Romance, Tragedy, Romeo And Juliet Love
1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

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