William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by William Shakespeare:
Speak low, if you speak love.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
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I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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I will praise any man that will praise me.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.
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Death is a fearful thing.
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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Nothing can come of nothing.
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
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For I can raise no money by vile means.
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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For my part, it was Greek to me.
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
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But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
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O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
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Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
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Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
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Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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They do not love that do not show their love.
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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
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It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
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'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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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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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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They say miracles are past.
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
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Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
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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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What's done can't be undone.
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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
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The wheel is come full circle.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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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? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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Men's vows are women's traitors!
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
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Farewell, fair cruelty.
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
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'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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What is past is prologue.
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
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There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
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There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
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O, had I but followed the arts!
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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How well he's read, to reason against reading!
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By that sin fell the angels.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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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 in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
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Now is the winter of our discontent.
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An overflow of good converts to bad.
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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Such as we are made of, such we be.
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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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 any man.
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
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Boldness be my friend.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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Let no such man be trusted.
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We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
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I dote on his very absence.
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He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
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I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
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I was adored once too.
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Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
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He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
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There's place and means for every man alive.
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My pride fell with my fortunes.
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Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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I bear a charmed life.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
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The valiant never taste of death but once.
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There's many a man has more hair than wit.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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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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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
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And this, 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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
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I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
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If music be the food of love, play on.
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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