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William Shakespeare

Time
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
3.9 · 60 votes · 134 reads
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Feelings
Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
4.4 · 10 votes · 106 reads
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Various
Every why has a wherefore.
4.4 · 35 votes · 189 reads
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Various
Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
3.0 · 42 votes · 33 reads
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Time
Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
4.8 · 24 votes · 188 reads
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Feelings
Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.
3.8 · 59 votes · 30 reads
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Time
For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
3.0 · 25 votes · 13 reads
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Defects
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
4.6 · 38 votes · 141 reads
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Feelings
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
3.2 · 12 votes · 38 reads
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Feelings
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
4.8 · 17 votes · 99 reads
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Thought and Reason
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
3.7 · 64 votes · 116 reads
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Feelings
Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
3.6 · 8 votes · 90 reads
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Government and Politics
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
3.7 · 52 votes · 79 reads
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Virtues
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
4.5 · 35 votes · 49 reads
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Society
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
3.8 · 53 votes · 42 reads
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Various
Good counselors lack no clients.
4.7 · 60 votes · 154 reads
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Virtues
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
4.1 · 59 votes · 16 reads
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Time
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
4.7 · 64 votes · 154 reads
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Nature
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
3.8 · 22 votes · 198 reads
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Virtues
He is not great who is not greatly good.
4.8 · 47 votes · 86 reads
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Virtues
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
3.6 · 26 votes · 45 reads
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Virtues
He receives comfort like cold porridge.
3.3 · 16 votes · 0 reads
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Society
He that dies pays all his debts.
4.6 · 16 votes · 47 reads
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Society
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
4.6 · 16 votes · 13 reads
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Feelings
He that is well paid is well satisfied.
3.3 · 61 votes · 181 reads
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Various
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
3.0 · 51 votes · 200 reads
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Thought and Reason
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
4.0 · 41 votes · 61 reads
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Virtues
He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
3.1 · 19 votes · 26 reads
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Various
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
4.3 · 35 votes · 78 reads
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Virtues
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
4.2 · 63 votes · 200 reads
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Virtues
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
3.5 · 34 votes · 128 reads
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Various
How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
5.0 · 56 votes · 176 reads
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Time
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
4.3 · 29 votes · 104 reads
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Virtues
How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
4.6 · 30 votes · 45 reads
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Time
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
4.5 · 43 votes · 152 reads
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Various
How use doth breed a habit in man!
3.3 · 13 votes · 111 reads
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Virtues
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
3.4 · 22 votes · 8 reads
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Virtues
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
3.2 · 36 votes · 115 reads
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Society
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
4.1 · 62 votes · 39 reads
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Nature
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
4.1 · 54 votes · 8 reads
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