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Alas, poor Yorick!

"Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be." (IV.v.43-4)

"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 – / to sleep – perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub," (III.i. 56-65)

"…for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." (II.ii.247-9)

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." (II.ii.204)

"'Doubt thou the stars are fire; / Doubt that the sun doth move; / Doubt truth to be a liar; / But never doubt I love.'" (II.ii.116-9)

"This above all, to thine own self be true," (I.iii.78)

"My father's spirit – in arms? All is not well. / I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come! / Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes." (I.ii.255-8)

"/ These indeed seem, / For they are actions that a man might play, / But I have that within which passeth show- / These but the trappings and the suits of woe." (1.ii.83-86)