The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.


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To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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
We were not born to sue, but to command.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE