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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare , Hamlet

“Words, words, words.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet: A Television Script. Adapted by Michael Benthall and Ralph Nelson for presentation on the CBS Television Network by the Old Vic Company on February 24, 1959 at 9:30 EST.

“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world; now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“And will 'a not come again?
And will 'a not come again?
No, no, he is dead,
Go to thy death bed:
He will never come again.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone;
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?”
― Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Will you walk out of the air, my lord?

HAMLET
Into my grave.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“She speaks much of her father; says she hears
There’s tricks i’ the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense.

(Ophelia)”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts...
There’s fennel for you, and columbines; there’s rue for you, and here’s some for me; we may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died. They say he made a good end,— [Sings.]
“For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Thought and afflictions, passion, hell itself, She turns to favor and to prettiness.
Song. And will a not come again? And will a not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy deathbed; He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow, Flaxen was his poll. He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan. God ’a’ mercy on his soul.”
― William Shakespeare

“One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow. Your sister's drowned, Laertes.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“HAMLET: I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not with all their quantity of love
Make up my sum.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet