William Shakespeare Quotes

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“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” -William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” -William Shakespeare
“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.” -William Shakespeare
“To do a great right do a little wrong.” -William Shakespeare
“Nothing will come of nothing.” -William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few,do wrong to none” -William Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare
“There is no darkness but ignorance.” -William Shakespeare

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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
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The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our conditions.
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.
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This above all: to thine own self be true.
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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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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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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And yet, by heaven, i think my love as rare .as any she belied with false compare.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Go wisely and go slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
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Self love is not so vile a sin as self neglecting.
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Better three hours too soon than a minute late.
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Good company, good wine, good welcome can make good people
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Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage.
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The better part of valour is discretion
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Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see,the pretty follies that themselves commit.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates:the fault, dear brutus, is not in our stars,but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
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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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You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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These violent delights have violent ends,and in their triump die, like fire and powder,which, as they kiss, consume
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this england.
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What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
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Friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: i come to bury caesar, not to praise him.
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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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To be, or not to be: that is the question
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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.
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Now is the winter of our discontent
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I am one who loved not wisely but too well.
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Is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle toward my hand?
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Life’s 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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Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.
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What light through yonder window breaks.
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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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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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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But doth must suffer a sea-changeinto something rich and strange.
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If music be the food of love play on.
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What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis pluck’d.
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But doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.
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Methought i was enamoured of an ass.~titania
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At this hour lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
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I take thee at thy word: call me but love, and i’ll be new baptized; henceforth i never will be romeo.
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When devils will the blackest sins put on they do suggest at first with heavenly shows.
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For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil,must give us pause
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Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But i know none, and therefore am no beast.
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They are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, contain and nourish all the world.
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Let me have war, say i: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it’s spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.
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Some there be that shadow kiss; such have but a shadow’s bliss.
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To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

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