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• Frailty, thy name is woman!

  Act I, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Corruption and Decay

  In deckIn deck
• Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems. / ’Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor…

  Act I, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAppearance versus Reality

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• But I have that within which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

  Act I, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Appearance versus Reality

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• O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that…

  Act I, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAction and Inaction

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• He was a man, take him for all in all, / I shall not look upon his like again.

  Act I, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and Mortality

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• A little more than kin, and less than kind.

  Act I, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Corruption and DecayAppearance versus Reality

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• This above all: to thine own self be true; / And it must follow, as the night the day, /…

  Act I, Scene 3·Polonius

  Appearance versus Reality

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be: / For loan oft loses both itself and friend; / And borrowing dulls…

  Act I, Scene 3·Polonius

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• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  Act I, Scene 4

  Corruption and Decay

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• Ay marry is’t; / And to my mind, though I am native here, / And to the manner born, it…

  Act I, Scene 4·Hamlet

  Corruption and DecayAppearance versus Reality

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• There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  Act I, Scene 5·Hamlet

  Appearance versus Reality

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• The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it right.

  Act I, Scene 5·Hamlet

  Corruption and DecayAction and Inaction

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• As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on—

  Act I, Scene 5·Hamlet

  Madness and SanityAppearance versus Reality

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• The serpent that did sting thy father’s life / Now wears his crown.

  Act I, Scene 5

  Corruption and DecayAppearance versus Reality

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• Murder most foul, as in the best it is; / But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

  Act I, Scene 5

  Corruption and DecayRevenge and Justice

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• Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, / I will be…

  Act II, Scene 2·Polonius

  Appearance versus Reality

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• The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Revenge and JusticeAppearance versus Reality

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• Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Appearance versus Reality

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• O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not…

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Madness and SanityAppearance versus Reality

  In deckIn deck
• I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Madness and SanityAppearance versus Reality

  In deckIn deck
• What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how…

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAppearance versus Reality

  In deckIn deck
• Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar,…

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Appearance versus Reality

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  Act II, Scene 2·Polonius

  Madness and SanityAppearance versus Reality

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• Denmark's a prison.

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Corruption and Decay

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• Words, words, words.

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Appearance versus Reality

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• And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  Act II, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAppearance versus Reality

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: / Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer /…

  Act III, Scene 1·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAction and Inaction

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• Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, / And thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o’er…

  Act III, Scene 1·Hamlet

  Madness and SanityAction and Inaction

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• The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will, / And makes us rather bear those…

  Act III, Scene 1·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAction and Inaction

  In deckIn deck
• To die, to sleep. / To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, / For in that sleep of death…

  Act III, Scene 1·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAction and Inaction

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• The lady protests too much, methinks.

  Act III, Scene 2·Gertrude

  Corruption and DecayAppearance versus Reality

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• Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the…

  Act III, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Appearance versus Reality

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• Our wills and fates do so contrary run / That our devices still are overthrown. / Our thoughts are ours,…

  Act III, Scene 2

  Action and Inaction

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• Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem…

  Act III, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Appearance versus Reality

  In deckIn deck
• ’Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to…

  Act III, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityMadness and SanityRevenge and Justice

  In deckIn deck
• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

  Act III, Scene 3·Claudius

  Corruption and DecayAppearance versus Reality

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• O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; / It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,— / A brother’s…

  Act III, Scene 3·Claudius

  Corruption and DecayRevenge and JusticeAppearance versus Reality

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• Now might I do it pat, now he is praying. / And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to…

  Act III, Scene 3·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAction and InactionRevenge and Justice

  In deckIn deck
• I must be cruel, only to be kind: / Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

  Act III, Scene 4·Hamlet

  Action and InactionRevenge and Justice

  In deckIn deck
• O Hamlet, speak no more. / Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul, / And there I see such…

  Act III, Scene 4·Gertrude

  Corruption and DecayAppearance versus Reality

  In deckIn deck
• Do not forget. This visitation / Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.

  Act III, Scene 4

  Action and InactionRevenge and Justice

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• How now? A rat? [_Draws._] / Dead for a ducat, dead!

  Act III, Scene 4·Hamlet

  Action and InactionRevenge and Justice

  In deckIn deck
• Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your…

  Act IV, Scene 3·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityCorruption and DecayAppearance versus Reality

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• O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.

  Act IV, Scene 4·Hamlet

  Action and InactionRevenge and Justice

  In deckIn deck
• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

  Act IV, Scene 5·Ophelia

  Death and MortalityMadness and Sanity

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• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.

  Act IV, Scene 5·Claudius

  Death and MortalityCorruption and Decay

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• Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  Act IV, Scene 5·Ophelia

  Death and MortalityMadness and SanityAppearance versus Reality

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• Her clothes spread wide, / And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up, / Which time she chaunted snatches of old…

  Act IV, Scene 7·Gertrude

  Death and MortalityMadness and Sanity

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• There is a willow grows aslant a brook, / That shows his hoary leaves in the glassy stream. / There…

  Act IV, Scene 7·Gertrude

  Death and MortalityMadness and Sanity

  In deckIn deck
• No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; / Revenge should have no bounds.

  Act IV, Scene 7·Claudius

  Corruption and DecayRevenge and Justice

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• Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

  Act V, Scene 1·Hamlet

  Death and Mortality

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• Sweets to the sweet. Farewell.

  Act V, Scene 1·Gertrude

  Death and Mortality

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• Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, / Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

  Act V, Scene 1·Hamlet

  Death and Mortality

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• Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, / And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

  Act V, Scene 2·Horatio

  Death and Mortality

  In deckIn deck
• If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, / Absent thee from felicity awhile, / And in this harsh…

  Act V, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAppearance versus Reality

  In deckIn deck
• The rest is silence.

  Act V, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and Mortality

  In deckIn deck
• Not a whit, we defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,…

  Act V, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Death and MortalityAction and Inaction

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• There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will.

  Act V, Scene 2·Hamlet

  Action and InactionAppearance versus Reality

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