Can anyone explain to me what this Macbeth quote means?
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Macbeth is expressing the dangers of being overambitious. He is aware that mindless ambition makes a person blind to all the pitfalls that are in front of that person. So, he is warning himself to be careful of his own desires. Especially when  he believes that the prophecy is about to be thwarted by the announcement of Duncan. It gives credence to the point that Lady Macbeth didn't convince Macbeth to commit murder. That intent was always present in him.\n\nIt has nothing to do with the weather. The weather is simply gloomy which is a part of the 'darkness' of the play. The fact that nothing is what it seems including the characters.
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Looks like the quote is Harvey Mackay, a motivational speaker.  Couldn't tell you what book it might be from, but I do have a website...\n\nwww.mackay.com
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From one of the speeches in Henry VI part 2 (that's a Shakespeare play!)\n\nHere's the speech. The origin of Mum's the word comes in the third line:\n\n\n    Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;\n    Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!\n    Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:\n    The business asketh silent secrecy.\n    Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:\n    Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.\n    Yet have I gold flies from another coast;\n    I dare not say, from the rich cardinal\n    And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,\n    Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,\n    They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,\n    Have hired me to undermine the duchess\n    And buz these conjurations in her brain.\n    They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'\n    Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.\n    Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near\n    To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.\n    Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last\n    Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,\n    And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:\n    Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.
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It sounds like a line from the old "Star Trek," when someone was insulting Mr. Spock.\n\nHis answer would probably have been something like, "If you are expecting an answer, your question is illogical. If your question is rhetorical I expect you are trying to insult me which is impossible since I'm incapable of feeling emotion and therefore - feeling insulted."
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try checking out this link"\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/macbeth.htm
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Spot\n\nHer dog shedded profusely, left bits of hair and lint on her Camera Obscura. In her cry of "Out, damned spot!" she was decrying the poor state of the optics in her Camera Obscura, although, like you, the dog probably took it the wrong way.\n\nVisions... Macbeth hallucinates that he sees a bloody dagger floating in the air, pointing to King Duncan’s resting chamber “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand” (Act 2, Scene 1). Macbeth knows what he is doing will change his life. Committing regicide is a sin that can’t be forgiven. Macbeth may see this through the supernatural powers of the three witches, or it may be another hallucination. Lady Macbeth believes there is blood on her hands that won’t come off “Out damned spot! Out I say!” (Act 5, Scene 1). Lady Macbeth here is sleepwalking and spot is being referred to as blood stained hands. Lady Macbeth can’t cleanse herself of the guilt of plotting King Duncan’s murder. Though it is not clear whether it is a mere vision or not, some believe that the ghost of Banquo, which Macbeth sees at the Royal Banquet, is a figment of his guilty conscience. Of course, one could also argue that a real ghost would not be unusual in a play that includes supernatural witches and apparitions.
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Of course it doesn’t make sense. “Love your enemies” is an absurdity. If you love them they can’t be your enemy. What the confused writer was probably trying to say is to love those who view (((you))) as their enemy, and this would make some sense.\n\nAnd not to mention that the writer’s god is a hypocrite since he sends his enemies to hell.
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It is so simple.  "Know your source" means "Please give an origin " (history, quotation, author,etc) for the information/question you are providing. e.g.:\n\nYour question: Someone one said something like "when shall we three meet again" in classical literature,  and I don't know where it comes from. Help.\n\nResponse: It comes from Macbeth.\n\nSource: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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I'm not entirely sure of the context of this qoute, but I would guess that it is telling a race of poeople who have been historically oppressed by others that they should work together and try to overthrow their oppressors/ achieve a certain goal because they can do anything when together and they are not inferior, even though they might have been told so by their oppressors.
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Lol, where do you go to school person that answered the question first.  You put it paranthesis, ( Like this ), and page number like if I wanted to quote Shakespear from Macbeth ( Shakespeare, 45 ). But the book Macbeth must be in References or Works Cited.
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the poet is trying to say that people naturally judge people by the color of their skin rather than their character qualities. he ends the poem with a plea to everyone to not think superficially about a person by his color but to look deeper, because behind the skin color is a human person just like everyone else in the world. \n\nso it means that everywhere everyone should treat each other like equals because everyone is just human like everyone else. there are bad people all over the world; there are also friendly people all over the world.
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i'm not that familiar with the story, except that it is about witch hunting in a town. this quote, whoever says it, is someone begging Thomas not to get involved in witch craft. is it his wife? that would make sense, that she's begging her husband not to get in it because the town (who was full of people paranoid about witch craft) would charge them with the crime.
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"To be or not to be, --that is the question:--\nWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer\nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune\nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles,\nAnd by opposing end them?"\n\n\n\n\nthe 1 whch i like \n\n\n"I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.\nHear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell\nThat summons thee to heaven or to hell."
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Does this sound like anyone we know?: "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind... And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate AND THE MIND HAS CLOSED, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so.\nHow do I know? For this is what I have done and I am Caesar"\n\n-"Julius Caesar"\nWilliam Shakespeare
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it means to get drunk\n\nthis is a good place to find history of random sayings\nhttp://members.aol.com/MoreLandC/HaveOrigins.htm
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I think it's from Bill Shakespear
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Brutus is saying they must sacrifice Julius Caesar for the good of Rome and the empire.  Brutus is warning that jealousy and resentment are motives for BUTCHERING Caesar, but that those are the wrong motives for pursuing violence.\n\nShakespeare may have been using this elegant, exact wording to hint to the theatre audience that Brutus was testing Cassius to see if Cassius was a patriot or a selfish and ambitious senator.