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I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.
I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.
 For a good poet's made, as well as born,
 And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
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 For a good poet's made, as well as born,
 And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
  Lives in his issue; even so the race
   Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine
    In his well-turned and true-filed lines;
     In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
      As brandished at the eyes of ignorance. 
I am sure care 's an enemy to life. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.
I am sure care 's an enemy to life. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2.
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2.
We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.
We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.
What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
 What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of 
religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, read more 
 What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of 
religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? 
What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, 
or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? 
What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? 
What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What 
lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What 
gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior? 
There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth;… and there is salmons in read more
There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth;… and there is salmons in both. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 7.
An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' read more
An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ld have challenged him. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.