Shakespeare, William quotes
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright ActorI care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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Death and Dying
For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
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Cheating
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
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Fate
He is not great who is not greatly good.
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Greatness
Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
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Ceremony
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
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Danger
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
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Conceit
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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Conceit
But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover s bed.
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Death and Dying
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he s not robbed at all.
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Crime and Criminals
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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Jokes and Jokers
But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we ll not fail.
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Courage
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
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Compassion
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
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Diligence
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
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Chastity
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
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Dreams
The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away
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Cheerfulness
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
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Death and Dying
After life s fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
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Death and Dying
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men s blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
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Bores and Boredom
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]
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Dreams
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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Competition
I am bewitched with the rogue s company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I ll be hanged.
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Charm
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
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Competition
A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
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Futility
That s a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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Courage
I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.
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Courage
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]
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Greatness
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
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Dreams
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to t with delight.
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Business
Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
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Dreams
Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
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Brevity
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
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Endurance
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
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Jokes and Jokers
Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
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Company
The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]
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Devil
In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
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Greatness
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
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Fate
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
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Dress
There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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Fate
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
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Despair
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
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Doubt
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
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Censorship
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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Cooperation
Such as we are made of, such we be.
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Destiny
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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Despair
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]
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Doubt
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
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Greatness
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
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Caution
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
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Debt
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Coward and Cowardice
Words pay no debts.
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Debt
Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
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Coward and Cowardice
Conscience does make cowards of us all.
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Conscience
Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
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Danger
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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Deception
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
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Dress
Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
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Decay
He that dies pays all his debts.
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Debt
Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
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Delinquency
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
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Devil
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
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Greatness
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.
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Conscience
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
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Corruption
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]
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Danger
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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Cosmetics
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!
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Crisis
Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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Idols
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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Cooking
To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
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Caution
Much Ado About Nothing,
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Importance
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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Future
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
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Explanations
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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Faces
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
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Guilt
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.
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Faces
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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Gifts
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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Fear
There s small choice in rotten apples.
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Evil
We defy augury. There s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
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Free Will
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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Good and Evil
Good counselors lack no clients.
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Experts
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery. [Julius Caesar]
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Fortune
Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
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Fashion
Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
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Excellence
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
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Excellence
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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Excuses
I will praise any man that will praise me.
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Flattery
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
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Glory
Lord, what fools these mortals be.
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Fools and Foolishness
Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
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Life and Living
Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
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Life and Living
Patch grief with proverbs.
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Grief
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
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Grief
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
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Fools and Foolishness
Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
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Greed
There is a history in all men s lives.
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History and Historians
The best safety lies in fear.
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Fear
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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Fools and Foolishness
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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Fathers
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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Fools and Foolishness
I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. [Twelfth Night]
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Gratitude
He receives comfort like cold porridge.
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Gratitude
God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]
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Faces
Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.
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Fear
In time we hate that which we often fear.
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Fear
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
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Life and Living
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
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Fear
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
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Flattery
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
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Fame
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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Happiness
Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
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Friends and Friendship
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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Friends and Friendship
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]
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Heart
Come, let s have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let s mock the midnight bell.
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Farewells
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.
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Engagement
For Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.
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Engineering
A friend should bear a friend s infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
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Friends and Friendship
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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Fame
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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Fame
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man s eyes.
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Happiness
People usually are the happiest at home.
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Home
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
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Friends and Friendship
Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.
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Fame
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven s lieutenants.
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Family
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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Friends and Friendship
How use doth breed a habit in man!
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Habit
Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man s eyes.
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Envy
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
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Hatred
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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Hatred
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Familiarity
O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
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Night
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
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Humankind
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
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Hope
Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
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Knowledge
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
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Losers and Losing
The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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Marriage
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
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Love
She s gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
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Love Ended
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]
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Insanity
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
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Madness
Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man s censure, but reserve thy judgment. [Hamlet]
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Listening
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]
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Love
The jury, passing on the prisoner s life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
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Juries
No legacy is so rich as honestly.
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Inheritance
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
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Love
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
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Suicide
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
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Love
This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.
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Lust
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
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Intelligence and Intellectuals
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]
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Law and Lawyers
I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.
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Jealousy
We ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
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Hospitality
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
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Manners
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
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Honesty
But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
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Immortality
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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Love
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
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Kisses and Kissing
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.
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Love
For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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Modern and Modernism
My salad days, when I was green in judgment.
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Judgment and Judges
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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Love
Report me and my cause aright.
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Media
There s not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
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Praise
It was Greek to me.
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Language
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
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Honesty
Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]
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Justice
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
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Life and Death
O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
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Insomnia
Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]
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Honor
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
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Lovers
We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
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Lovers
I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
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Infatuation
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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Self-respect
My library was dukedom large enough.
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Libraries
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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Loyalty
Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.
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Judgment and Judges
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer s hand.
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Human Nature
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
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Love
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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Love
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
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Medicine
Present mirth hath present laughter. What s to come is still unsure.
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Laughter
Remembrance of things past.
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Nostalgia
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time s waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death s dateless night, and weep afresh love s long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.
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Memory
One pain is lessened by another s anguish.
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Pain
There is no darkness, but ignorance.
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Ignorance
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
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Maturity
A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
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Swearing
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
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Misfortunes
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
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Swearing
A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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Peace
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
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Murder
I do desire we may be better strangers.
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Strangers
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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Poverty and The Poor
Beware of the ides of March.
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Prophecy
Every good servant does not all commands.
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Obedience
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
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Modesty
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
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Modesty
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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Politicians and Politics
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
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Politicians and Politics
But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
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Preachers and Preaching
Bow, stubborn knees!
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Prayer
We were not born to sue, but to command.
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Negotiation
Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]
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Necessity
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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Money
While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Truth
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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Power
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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Politicians and Politics
Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.
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Past
Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
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Mind
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
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Mind
Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]
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Patience
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
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Patience
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
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Patience
How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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Patience
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
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Potential
What s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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Names
We have seen better days.
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Past
What is past is prologue.
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Past
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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Procrastination
In delay there lies no plenty.
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Procrastination
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite
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Possibilities
He plough d her, and she cropp d.
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Procreation
Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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Potential
The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
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Music
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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Misers and Misery
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
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Misfortunes
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
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Perseverance
I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
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Pollution
Soft pity enters an iron gate.
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Pity
You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.
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Police
Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
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Pain
Is it not strange that sheep s guts should hale souls out of men s bodies?
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Music
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
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Plays
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
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Opportunity
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
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Psychiatry
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
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Men and Women
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he s most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
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Pride
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
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Obesity
Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
Shakespeare, William
Obesity
Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
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Moralists
If music be the food of love; play on.
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Music
Striving to better, oft we mar what s well.
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Perfection
How excellent it is to have a giant s strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
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Strength
I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
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Style
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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Words
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
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Temptation
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
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Temptation
Every why has a wherefore.
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Purpose
For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.
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Resolution
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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Talkativeness
Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
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Reason
And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
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Punishment
Strong reasons make strong actions.
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Reason
O, it is excellent to have a giant s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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Self-control
Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
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Self-love
Make not your thoughts you prisons.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter s rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
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Retirement
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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Retirement
There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Thought is free.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Who is so firm that can t be seduced?
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Resolution
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Royalty
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
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Time and Time Management
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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Sorrow
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
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Self-talk
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
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Tact and Tactfulness
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
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Travel and Tourism
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Spring
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
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Reputation
Nothing will come of nothing.
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Results
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Quarrels
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
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Purpose
Security is the chief enemy of mortals.
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Security
She s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
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Seduction
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. [Hamlet]
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Questions
Let s not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that s gone.
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Regret
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
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Risk
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
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Worry
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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Time and Time Management
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
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Success
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
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Riches
Don t trust the person who has broken faith once.
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Trust
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
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Revenge
I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
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Publicity
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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Revenge
Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
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Silence
The proverb is something musty.
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Proverbs
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
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Smells
Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
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Risk
I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
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Sin
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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Punctuality
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
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Sin
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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Sin
A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
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Smile
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [Hamlet]
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Smile
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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Unemployment
Love all, but trust a few.
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Trust
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
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Slander
This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
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Astrology
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Action
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]
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Age and Aging
Youth is full of sport, age s breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
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Age and Aging
They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. [Measure For Measure]
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Faults
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Death and Dying
Men s faults to themselves seldom appear.
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Faults
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