Date: 1603
"Remember thee? / Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe."
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Date: 1603
"My father--methinks I see my father ... In my mind's eye."
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Date: 1603
"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."
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Date: 1603
"Give me that man / That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, / As I do thee."
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Date: 1604, 1622
A thought may, "like a poisonous mineral," gnaw one's inwards
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Date: 1609
"My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;/ And I myself see not the bottom of it."
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Date: w. 1610-11, 1623
"A solemn air, and the best comforter / To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, / Now useless, boiled within thy skull."
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Date: w. 1610-11, 1623
"The charm dissolves apace, / And as the morning steals upon the night, / Melting the darkness, so their rising senses / Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle / Their clearer reason."
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Date: w. 1610-11, 1623
"Their understanding / Begins to swell, and the approaching tide / Will shortly fill the reasonable shores / That now lie foul and muddy."
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Date: w. 1610-11, 1623
"You cram these words into mine ears against / The stomach of my sense."
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