Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces


William Gurnall

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WILLIAM ZINSSER
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN
For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN
I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE