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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
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"We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
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Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. - William Edmondstoune Aytoun,
WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.
RICHARD LLEWELLYN
William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS
I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE
The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."
COVENTRY PATMORE
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN
Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN
The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want...
DEYTH BANGER
The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t...
CHARLES DICKENS
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON
Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON
In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN
I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN
From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER
I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS
Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You come out those first couple of days (of conditioning drills) and people want to know how everybo...
JAY RICHARDSON
Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s...
FISHER STEVENS
O Nanak, in the end, all this vanishes like a dream!
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
In this situation we've got with suppliers, it's unfortunately a part of doing business these days. ...
DAN SIEGER
That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thin...
ROBERT BROWNING
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, th...
IAN HART
[I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL
Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end bu...
JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK
O don't know when you'll be ready for me. It might be next month or next year. Whenever it is, just ...
COLLEEN HOOVER
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET
If Pugh leaves his company, there might be a chance of the company doing business with the county af...
GARY WHITE
Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING
At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON
It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
ALAN YANG
A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Brief as the lightning in the collied night;
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou...
BIBLE
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER)
A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times b...
G.K. CHESTERTON
The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the day...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
A thief stops stealing when he dies
SOTONYE ANGA
A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Tu...
REBECCA SOLNIT
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST
Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN
It’s a bad case o’ the thinkin’ he’s caught, missus. When a man starts messin’ wi’ the r...
TERRY PRATCHETT
What is that way, by which the Lord's Praises might be sung? What is that intellect, by which this p...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF
O hell! to choose love by another's eyes!" "Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I ...
BIBLE
Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he...
MIKE VEECK
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE
Wrongly chosen, wrongly slain, A hero Valhalla cannot contain. Nine days hence the sun must go east,...
RICK RIORDAN
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light,...
WILLIAM COWPER
O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes Of these poor Might-Have-B...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick pray...
KATE CHOPIN
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work...
IAN HART
Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?
SOURCE UNKNOWN
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't...
E. ST. ELMO LEWIS
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't...
GERALD BRENAN
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER
It's time to send a message to these three that their days of making money on the pain, desperation ...
DANIEL RODRIGUEZ
The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
BIBLE
I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.
AUBREY O'DAY
We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; no...
ROBERT WILENSKY
I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal; Ay...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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Though she be but little, she is fierce.
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What's done can't be undone.
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They say miracles are past.
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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Now is the winter of our discontent.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
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Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
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Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
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man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
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All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
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I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
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So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
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The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
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Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
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Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
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If we shadows have offended,
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That you have but slumber'd...
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
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To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
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Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather...
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In my mind's eye, Horatio.
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Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
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Jesters do oft prove prophets
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Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
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Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
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If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for tre...
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
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How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it ...
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Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
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O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
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Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears; And now, to add more measure to your woes, I come t...
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Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever a...
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There's villainous news abroad.
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The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
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Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities.
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When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
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So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition-- ...
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
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He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, ...
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Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Tur...
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My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
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The proverb is something musty.
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice ...
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There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
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All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; ...
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
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The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.
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For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
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O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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Make not your thoughts you prisons.
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To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
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The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and...
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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be...
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
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God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
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'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE