The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.


William Barclay

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Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON
They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN
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...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN