KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUOTES

Biography

Nationality: English

Born: April 26, 1564

Died: April 23, 1616

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.

William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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Inspirational

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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Trust, Love, Wrong

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Life, Poor, Full

If music be the food of love, play on.

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Music, Love, Food

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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Future, Ourselves, Destiny

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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Dating, Good, Night

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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Wise, Fool, Himself

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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Great, Born, Achieve

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

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Good, Bad, Thinking

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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Wrong, Die, Laugh

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

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God, Yourself, Another

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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Rich, Honesty, Legacy

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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Life, Men, Lose

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

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Knowledge, God, Ignorance

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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Time, Men, Women

The wheel is come full circle.

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Full, Circle, Wheel

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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Here, Hell, Empty

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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Love, Mind, Eyes

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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Call, Name, Sweet

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

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Love, Smoke, Sighs

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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Nature, Makes, Touch

This above all; to thine own self be true.

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True, Self, Above

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

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Father's Day, Father, Both

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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Few, Speak, Listen

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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Love, True, Run

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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Three, Late, Soon

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

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Men, Wise, Adversity

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

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Good, Win, Might

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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Makes, Sound, Empty

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

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Question

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

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Death, Once, Times

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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True, Night, Self

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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Good, Far, Naughty

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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Dream, Merely, Shadow

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

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Life, Dreams, Sleep

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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Work, God, Reason

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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Nature, Life, Good

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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Fool, Foolish, Wit

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

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Mind, Guilty, Suspicion

What is past is prologue.

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Past

Such as we are made of, such we be.

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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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Time, Waste, Wasted

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

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Good, Words, Talking

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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Love, Words, Fire

What's done can't be undone.

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Undone

There is no darkness but ignorance.

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Ignorance, Darkness

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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Money, Nor, Neither

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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Great, Wrong

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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Patience, Poor, Heal

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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

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Laughter, Wrinkles, Mirth

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

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Age, Behind, Golden

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

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Immortal, Crown, Robe

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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Fall, Virtue, Rise

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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Words, Spent, Seldom

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

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Heart, Matter, Words

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

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Enjoy, Content, Seldom

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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Lost, Reputation, False

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

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Great, Born, Cry

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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Short, Action, Seem

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

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Heart, Face, False

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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Music, Himself, Sweet

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

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Trust, Eye, Itself

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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Sympathy, Single, Sorrows

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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Women, Men, Changes

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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Soul, Wit, Brevity

Nothing can come of nothing.

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Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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Thoughts, Tongue, Thy

In time we hate that which we often fear.

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Time, Fear, Hate

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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Happiness, Another, Eyes

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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Good, Men, Easy

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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Father's Day, Wise, Father

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

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Love, Finds, Alteration

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

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Time, Gone, Subjects

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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Good, Men, Evil

More topics

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

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Patience, Pattern

O, had I but followed the arts!

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Arts, Followed

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

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Seen, Fair, Foul

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

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Others, Fly, Bear

For I can raise no money by vile means.

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Money, Means, Raise

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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Dangerous, Virtue, Loving

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

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Peace, Stand, Shall

Now is the winter of our discontent.

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Winter, Discontent

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

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Hair, Wit

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

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Death, Motion, Eaten

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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Word, Action, Suit

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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Life, Far, Honor

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

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Another, Fall, Tis

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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Himself, Company, Thief

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

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Watch, Wit, Strike

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

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Worse, Fault, Excuse

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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Experience, Travel, Sad

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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Great, Men, Loved

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

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Soul, Joy, Lies

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

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New Year's, Hope, Shall

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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God, Another, Face

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

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Though, Within, Side

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

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Time, Run, Hour

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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Age, Cannot, Youth

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

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Law, Wills, Lawless

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

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Wrong, Eyes, Wish

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

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Enemy, Devil, Consider

Let no such man be trusted.

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Trust, Trusted

There's place and means for every man alive.

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Means, Alive

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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Stuff, Ambition, Sterner

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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Faith, Great, Men

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

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Death, Hurts, Lover

I will praise any man that will praise me.

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Praise

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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Woman, She, Fair

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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Purpose, Devil, Scripture

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

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Love, Young, Conscience

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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Head, Lies, Crown

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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Fire, Heaven, Invention

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

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Nature, Great, Men

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

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End, Minutes, Towards

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

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Heart, Ask, Knock

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

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Imagination, Poet, Lover

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

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Wise, Doubt, Modest

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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Death, Living, Rather

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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Sweet, Mad, Heaven

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

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Teach, Lady, Kissing

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

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Lose

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

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Time, Nature, Her

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

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Answer, Please, Bound

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

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I dote on his very absence.

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Absence

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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Fortune, Brings, Boats

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

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Makes, Means, Deeds

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

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Men, Women, Strength

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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Enough, Poor, Rich

By that sin fell the angels.

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Sin, Angels, Fell

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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True, False, Quarrel

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

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Men, Against, Sun

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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Best, Enemy, Seems

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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Good, Heart, Shall

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

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Together, Wild, Turns

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

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Blood

An overflow of good converts to bad.

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Good, Bad, Converts

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

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Best, Men, Forget

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

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Art, Mind, Face

Death is a fearful thing.

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Death, Fearful

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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Desire, Strange, Outlive

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

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Fashion, Avoid, Cost

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

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Mind, Speech, Fortunes

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

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Prove, Praise, Allow

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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Time, Great, State

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

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Peace, Nature, Both

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

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Life, Dull, Ear

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

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Child, Tooth, Thankless

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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Sad, Hold, Stage

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

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Marriage, Good, Bad

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

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Thinks, Turns, Round

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

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Honesty, Dog, Truly

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

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Mind, Fair, Terms

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

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Good, Woman, She

The valiant never taste of death but once.

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Death, Once, Taste

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

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Time, Events, Delivered

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

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Words, Thoughts, Heaven

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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Men, Enough, Die

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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Enough, Help, Support

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

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Ambitious, Honour, Valiant

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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Run, Fast, Slow

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

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Whose, Traveler, Returns

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

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God, Seem, Weary

Men's vows are women's traitors!

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Men, Women, Traitors

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

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Worth, Mine, Note

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

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Natural, Grace

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

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Fashion, Wears, Apparel

I was adored once too.

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Once, Adored

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

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Soul, Alive, Sin

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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Deed, Attempt

They say miracles are past.

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Past, Miracles

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

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Use, Desert, Whipping

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

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Might, Above, Gods

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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Father, Living, Dead

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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Woman, Hopeless, Alas

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

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Reason, Against, Read

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

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Sports, Boy, Gods

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

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Face, Thy

My pride fell with my fortunes.

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Pride, Fell, Fortunes

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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Outside, Falsehood, Hath

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

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Loves, Worthy, Flattered

I bear a charmed life.

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Life, Bear, Charmed

For my part, it was Greek to me.

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Greek

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

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Men, Lord, Subject

KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL

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