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Quotes by Dramatist
"Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."
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"The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries."
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"Fit to govern? No, not fit to live."
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"Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast."
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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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"I think with every writer there are two people there."
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
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"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
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"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
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"People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us."
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
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"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
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"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
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"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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