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Topic: To be or not to be?
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ListensToTrees Knowflake Posts: 5315 From: Infinity Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 14, 2008 09:11 PM
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? 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. - Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd.~ Shakespeare, Hamlet IP: Logged |
silverstone Moderator Posts: 3132 From: Registered: Mar 2006
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posted September 15, 2008 06:26 PM
I love this passageIP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 26224 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted September 15, 2008 06:27 PM
Quote the source. ------------------ "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz IP: Logged |
ListensToTrees Knowflake Posts: 5315 From: Infinity Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 15, 2008 08:48 PM
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