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- "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be ..."
- "A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are ..."
- "Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. "
- "Alas, how love can trifle with itself! "
- "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent ..."
- "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have ..."
- "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. "
- "And summer's lease hath all too short a date. "
- "And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. "
- "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the ..."
- "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. "
- "Art made tongue-tied by authority. "
- "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their ..."
- "As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. "
- "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love ..."
- "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have ..."
- "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. "
- "Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it ..."
- "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. "
- "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. "
- "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. "
- "Boldness be my friend. "
- "Brevity is the soul of wit. "
- "But when they seldom come, they wished for come. "
- "But will they come when you do call for them? "
- "By that sin fell the angels. "
- "Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ..."
- "Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. "
- "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. "
- "Cudgel thy brains no more about it. "
- "Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. "
- "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? "
- "Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. "
- "Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above. "
- "Expectation is the root of all heartache. "
- "False face must hide what the false heart doth know. "
- "Farewell, fair cruelty. "
- "Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the ..."
- "For my part, it was Greek to me. "
- "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. "
- "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. "
- "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. "
- "Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. "
- "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. "
- "Having nothing, nothing can he lose. "
- "He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural. "
- "He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. "
- "He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. "
- "He makes a swan-like end, fading in music. "
- "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. "
- "He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. "
- "He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. "
- "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. "
- "Hell is empty and all the devils are here. "
- "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a ..."
- "How long a time lies in one little word? "
- "How now, wit! Whither wander you? "
- "How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! "
- "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by ..."
- "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! "
- "I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from ..."
- "I am not bound to please thee with my answer. "
- "I bear a charmed life. "
- "I dote on his very absence. "
- "I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. "
- "I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the ..."
- "I was adored once too. "
- "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. "
- "I will praise any man that will praise me. "
- "If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. "
- "If music be the food of love, play on. "
- "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels ..."
- "If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and ..."
- "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow ..."
- "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. "
- "If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not ..."
- "If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you ..."
- "Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. "
- "In a false quarrel there is no true valor. "
- "In time we hate that which we often fear. "
- "Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? "
- "Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. "
- "It is a custom. More honored in the breach than the observance. "
- "It is a wise father that knows his own child. "
- "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. "
- "It provokes the desire but it take away the performance. "
- "It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. "
- "Lawless are they that make their wills their law. "
- "Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. "
- "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. "
- "Let no such man be trusted. "
- "Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear ..."
- "Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. "
- "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon ..."
- "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to ..."
- "Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! "
- "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. "
- "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. "
- "Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. "
- "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. "
- "Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. "
- "Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. "
- "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. "
- "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they ..."
- "Men shut their doors against a setting sun. "
- "Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. "
- "Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. "
- "Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. "
- "My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. "
- "My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. "
- "My library was dukedom large enough. "
- "My pride fell with my fortunes. "
- "Neither a borrower nor a lender be. "
- "No legacy is so rich as honesty. "
- "Nothing can come of nothing. "
- "Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. "
- "Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. "
- "O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the ..."
- "O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, ..."
- "O, had I but followed the arts! "
- "O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. "
- "O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I ..."
- "O! What a noble mind is here o'erthrown. "
- "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! "
- "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. "
- "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by ..."
- "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and ..."
- "Parting is such sweet sorrow. "
- "Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. "
- "Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! "
- "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name. "
- "So foul and fair a day I have not seen. "
- "So shines a good deed in a weary world. "
- "So wise so young, they say, do never live long. "
- "Such seems your beauty still. "
- "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. "
- "Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet ..."
- "Sweet are the uses of adversity. "
- "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. "
- "Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you ..."
- "Talking isn't doing It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet ..."
- "Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. "
- "The attempt and not the deed confounds us. "
- "The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. "
- "The course of true love never did run smooth. "
- "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. "
- "The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. "
- "The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones. "
- "The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. "
- "The golden age is before us, not behind us. "
- "The lady doth protest too much, methinks. "
- "The love of heaven makes one heavenly. "
- "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. "
- "The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of ..."
- "The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let ..."
- "The object of art is to give life a shape. "
- "The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. "
- "The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. "
- "The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. "
- "The valiant never taste of death but once. "
- "The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. "
- "The wheel is come full circle. "
- "The will of man is by his reason swayed. "
- "There is no darkness but ignorance. "
- "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. "
- "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. "
- "They do not love that do not show their love. "
- "They say miracles are past. "
- "Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. "
- "Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. "
- "This above all; to thine own self be true. "
- "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. "
- "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. "
- "Time and the hour run through the roughest day. "
- "'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after. "
- "'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. "
- "To be, or not to be: that is the question. "
- "To fear the worst oft cures the worse. "
- "To their right praise and true perfection! "
- "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, ..."
- "Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down ..."
- "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. "
- "Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? "
- "We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to ..."
- "We know what we are, but know not what we may be. "
- "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in ..."
- "What is past is prologue. "
- "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would ..."
- "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his ..."
- "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. "
- "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of ..."
- "Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. "
- "Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading ..."
- "Why this is very midsummer madness. "
- "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. "
- "Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. "
- "Words without thoughts never to heaven go. "
- "Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. "
- "Your 'if' is the only peace-maker; much virtue in 'if'. "
