Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.


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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be...
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
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God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
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'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
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To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
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All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
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Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
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The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
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Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
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Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
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Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
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A little more than kin, and less than kind!
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
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I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
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Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
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My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
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For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
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Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
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How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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