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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

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To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

Ibid.

Ibid.

The very age and body of the time his form and

pressure.

Ibid.

Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

Not to speak it profanely.

Ibid.

Ibid.

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

us,

Ibid.

First Play. We have reformed that indifferently with

sir.

Ibid.

Ham. O, reform it altogether.

Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man

As e'er my conversation coped withal.

Ibid.

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,

And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.

Ibid.

A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks.

Ibid

They are not a pipe for fortune's finger

To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,

In my
As I do thee. Something too much of this.

And my imaginations are as foul

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

As Vulcan's stithy.

Here's metal more attractive.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

Ibid.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Ibid.

For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot.

Ibid.

This is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

Ibid.

Ham. Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?

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Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

Ibid.

The story is extant, and writ in choice Italian.

Ibid.

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The hart ungalled play;

For some must watch, while some must sleep:

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Pluck out the heart of my mystery.

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc, 2.

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

Ibid.

Ham. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?

Pol. By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed.
Ham. Methinks it is like a weasel.

Pol. It is backed like a weasel.

Ham. Or like a whale ?

Pol. Very like a whale.

Ibid.

They fool me to the top of my bent.

Ibid.

By and by is easily said.

Ibid.

'Tis now the very witching time of night,

When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out

Contagion to this world.

Ibid.

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

Ibid.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
A brother's murder.

Sc. 3.

Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

Ibid.

"T is not so above;

There is no shuffling, there the action lies
In his true nature.

Ibid.

O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,

Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay!

Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

Ibid.

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

Ibid.

About some act

That has no relish of salvation in 't.

Ibid

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Dead, for a ducat, dead!

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Sc. 4.

And let me wring your heart; for so I shall,

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That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?

Ibid.

Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
See, what a grace was seated on this brow:
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,—
A combination and a form indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.

At your age

Ibid.

The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

Ibid.

O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,

And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame
When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
Since frost itself as actively doth burn,

And reason panders will.

Ibid

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,

That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,
And put it in his pocket!

Ibid.

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Ibid.

A king of shreds and patches.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

How is 't with you,

That you do bend your eye on vacancy?

This is the very coinage of your brain:
This bodiless creation ecstasy

Ibid.

Is very cunning in.

Bring me to the test,

And I the matter will re-word; which madness
Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

Confess yourself to heaven;

Ibid.

Ibid.

Repent what's past; avoid what is to come.

Ibid.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Ibid.

Refrain to-night,

And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence: the next more easy;

For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Ibid.

I must be cruel, only to be kind:

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Ibid.

For 't is the sport to have the enginer

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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

Ibid.

1 Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. - HIPPOCRATES: Aphorism i.

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