To be or not to be

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;
And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir too? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To dye to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; I, 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 poor mans 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 these Fardels bear
To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered Country, from whose Bourn
No Traveller returns, Puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Then 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 Currants turn awry,
And loose the name of Action
Lady in thy orizons, be all my sins remembred

By
William Shakespeare