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It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.


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DEYTH BANGER If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
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PAULO COELHO And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is a lie.
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LORII MYERS Your desire to succeed must overpower your fear of failure!
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
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RUTH BADER GINSBURG Why be greedy when you can have it all.
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JAMES BUCHAN Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
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RICHIE NORTON I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
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And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
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Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
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Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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