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William Shakespeare

Nature
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.
4.2 · 37 votes · 63 reads
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Virtues
I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.
3.5 · 6 votes · 67 reads
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Various
I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
3.7 · 32 votes · 64 reads
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Defects
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.
4.2 · 34 votes · 106 reads
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Feelings
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
3.8 · 50 votes · 121 reads
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Virtues
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]
5.0 · 16 votes · 147 reads
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Thought and Reason
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.
3.8 · 53 votes · 21 reads
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Time
I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
4.0 · 29 votes · 3 reads
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Various
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
4.4 · 15 votes · 33 reads
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Society
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
4.8 · 15 votes · 24 reads
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Various
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie
5.0 · 20 votes · 122 reads
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Various
I will praise any man that will praise me.
4.6 · 38 votes · 100 reads
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Nature
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
3.8 · 64 votes · 0 reads
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Art and Culture
If music be the food of love; play on.
4.9 · 15 votes · 170 reads
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Society
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.
4.6 · 5 votes · 70 reads
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Various
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?
4.1 · 57 votes · 11 reads
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Various
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
4.4 · 64 votes · 195 reads
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Defects
In delay there lies no plenty.
4.0 · 54 votes · 20 reads
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Virtues
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.
4.5 · 9 votes · 65 reads
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Feelings
In time we hate that which we often fear.
4.8 · 32 votes · 60 reads
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Art and Culture
Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
3.0 · 54 votes · 84 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
3.5 · 26 votes · 140 reads
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Society
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
4.5 · 39 votes · 0 reads
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Virtues
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.
3.0 · 41 votes · 191 reads
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Society
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
4.0 · 11 votes · 22 reads
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Various
It was Greek to me.
3.8 · 15 votes · 141 reads
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Art and Culture
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
3.5 · 15 votes · 50 reads
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Thought and Reason
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.
3.1 · 30 votes · 194 reads
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Defects
Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
4.4 · 21 votes · 56 reads
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Nature
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
4.6 · 31 votes · 144 reads
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Nature
Life… It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
4.2 · 16 votes · 89 reads
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Virtues
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
4.4 · 26 votes · 32 reads
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Time
Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.
3.2 · 46 votes · 183 reads
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Time
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
3.0 · 52 votes · 188 reads
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Thought and Reason
Lord, what fools these mortals be.
4.9 · 8 votes · 24 reads
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Feelings
Love all, but trust a few.
3.5 · 33 votes · 108 reads
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Feelings
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
4.0 · 57 votes · 53 reads
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Feelings
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.
3.1 · 53 votes · 183 reads
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Feelings
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
3.7 · 47 votes · 144 reads
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Feelings
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
3.4 · 33 votes · 58 reads
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