John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued)
His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
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1489 That it should come to this!
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1490 Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
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1491 Why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on.
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1492 Frailty, thy name is woman!
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1493 A little month.
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1494 Like Niobe, all tears.
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1495 A beast, that wants discourse of reason.
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1496 My fathers brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.
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1497 It is not nor it cannot come to good.
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1498 Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day.
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1499 In my minds eye, Horatio.
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1500 He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
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1501 Season your admiration for a while.
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1502 In the dead vast and middle of the night.
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1503 Armd at point exactly, cap-a-pe. 1
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1504 A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
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Note 1. Armed at all points in Singer and White. [back ]