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Henry IV, Part 2
William Shakespeare
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.”
“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”
“Thou art a very ragged Wart.”
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
“Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.”
“By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind: an 't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man's too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.”
“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”
“Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.”
“We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.”
“Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition”
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