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“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Like

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: love 8471 likes

“This above all: to thine own self be true, Like

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: food, love, music 6975 likes

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: philosophy 6541 likes

“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Like

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 wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: death, existence, life 3160 likes

“To die, to sleep - Like

To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,

For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: a erlife, death-and-dying, hamlet, shakespeare 1736 likes

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt Like

of in your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: dreams, supernatural 1635 likes

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: polonius-from-hamlet 1323 likes

“Brevity is the soul of wit.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: brevity, wit 1149 likes

“Listen to many, speak to a few.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

1081 likes

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

924 likes

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: shakespeare 883 likes

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts Like

never to heaven go.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: weird-isn-t-it 708 likes

“This above all: to thine own self be true.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: self, truth 604 likes

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; Like

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: hora o 577 likes

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: sorrows 512 likes

“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Like

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 wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: death, pain, sleep, suicide 509 likes

“Sweets to the sweet.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: death, love, shakespeare 476 likes

“Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Like

Hamlet: Words, words, words.

Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet: Between who?
Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: hamlet, literature, shakespeare 471 likes

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: deceit, falsehood 465 likes

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

440 likes

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: madness 426 likes

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in Like

faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how

like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world!
the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of
dust?”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: humankind, man 336 likes

“I must be cruel only to be kind; Like

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: cruelty, kindness 334 likes

“Words, words, words.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

329 likes

“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: polonius 328 likes

“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their Like

quantity of love, make up my sum.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

322 likes

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Like

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

240 likes

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, Like

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: guilt, jealousy 234 likes

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten Like

thousand.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: honesty 211 likes

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a Like

hawk from a handsaw.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

198 likes

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