Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
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sweeter!
I wonder if ever a rhyme wa... JAMES CLARENCE HARVEY The competition is the strongest it's ever been. Any more, if you have a bad night, you're going to ... JASON MEYERS I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if ... EVE PLUMB Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were -... DOLLY PARTON My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out? Has he ever raised a fist as if he were ... LUNDY BANCROFT And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby ha... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to a... ISAAC NEWTON If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any... ISAAC NEWTON They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v.... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could ha... JOHN PIPER Nothing is ever wrong if you learn out of it and nothing is right if it makes you arrogant. Watch On... RAMANA PEMMARAJU The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found it so if you h... PHILLIPS BROOKS People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the s... C.S. LEWIS If all you ever focus on is the negative, then that's all you shall see ever see. MARK W BOYER No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time. LOVE ACTUALLY I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that t... C.S. LEWIS Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life ... ANN AGUIRRE If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. WILL ROGERS He's been out there at our 7-on-7 drills, and he looks great. I think he's throwing the ball better ... BOB SCOTT Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice. FIONA APPLE If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have ... PAT BENATAR Don't ever give up if you still want to try.
Don't ever wipe your tears if you still want to cry.
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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