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William Shakespeare

Thought and Reason
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]
3.8 · 53 votes · 42 reads
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Society
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.
4.2 · 49 votes · 18 reads
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Government and Politics
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
3.1 · 62 votes · 191 reads
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Time
We have seen better days.
3.1 · 63 votes · 21 reads
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Time
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
3.7 · 40 votes · 135 reads
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Feelings
We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
3.1 · 15 votes · 130 reads
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Virtues
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
4.4 · 63 votes · 148 reads
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Nature
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!
4.0 · 54 votes · 81 reads
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Time
What is past is prologue.
3.6 · 49 votes · 12 reads
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Feelings
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]
3.2 · 37 votes · 111 reads
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Various
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
3.6 · 42 votes · 46 reads
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Feelings
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.
4.8 · 64 votes · 71 reads
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Defects
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
3.8 · 33 votes · 174 reads
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Feelings
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
3.9 · 14 votes · 96 reads
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Various
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
4.4 · 14 votes · 56 reads
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Various
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
3.2 · 5 votes · 186 reads
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Thought and Reason
While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
4.0 · 61 votes · 39 reads
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Virtues
Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]
3.4 · 43 votes · 140 reads
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Various
Why should honor outlive honestly?
3.5 · 48 votes · 199 reads
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Feelings
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
4.1 · 61 votes · 154 reads
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Time
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]
3.6 · 6 votes · 186 reads
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Feelings
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
3.2 · 18 votes · 7 reads
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Society
Words pay no debts.
4.4 · 10 votes · 100 reads
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Feelings
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]
3.6 · 33 votes · 4 reads
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Time
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
3.0 · 56 votes · 118 reads
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Virtues
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
3.3 · 21 votes · 90 reads
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Time
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.
4.3 · 39 votes · 89 reads
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