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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
William Shakespeare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
William Shakespeare

When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

My library was dukedom large enough.
William Shakespeare

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
William Shakespeare

Lack nothing: be merry. - from Henry IV
William Shakespeare

The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
William Shakespeare

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
William Shakespeare

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
William Shakespeare

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
William Shakespeare

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
William Shakespeare

Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
William Shakespeare

Conscience does make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.
William Shakespeare

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
William Shakespeare

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
William Shakespeare

Jesters do often prove prophets.
William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
William Shakespeare

Vini, Vici, Vidi (I came, I saw, I conquered). - Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?
William Shakespeare

I wish you all the joy you can wish.
William Shakespeare

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
William Shakespeare

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.
William Shakespeare

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare

He that is well paid is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare

I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
William Shakespeare

Journeys end in lovers meeting.
William Shakespeare

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
William Shakespeare

The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]
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Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
William Shakespeare

People usually are the happiest at home.
William Shakespeare

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
William Shakespeare

'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare

Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me the most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death is a necessary end, will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
William Shakespeare

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
William Shakespeare

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
William Shakespeare