“What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“How stand I then, / That have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d, / Excitements of my reason and my blood, / And let all sleep, while to my shame I see / The imminent death of twenty thousand men / That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, / Go to their graves like beds,Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“Rightly to be great / Is not to stir without great argument, / But greatly to find quarrel in a straw / When honour's at the stake.Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“We go to gain a little patch of ground / That hath in it no profit but the name. / To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; / Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole / A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.Scene 4 · ★★★☆☆→
“This is th'imposthume of much wealth and peace, / That inward breaks, and shows no cause without / Why the man dies.Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★☆☆→
“Sure he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To fust in us unus'd.Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★☆☆→