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Music
If music be the food of love; play on.
William Shakespeare
Music
Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
William Shakespeare
Names
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as
sweet.
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Necessity
Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]
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Negotiation
We were not born to sue, but to command.
William Shakespeare
Night
O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame,
black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse
of blame!
William Shakespeare
Nostalgia
Remembrance of things past.
William Shakespeare
Obedience
Every good servant does not all commands.
William Shakespeare
Obesity
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
William Shakespeare
Obesity
Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep
a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such
men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare
Opportunity
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
William Shakespeare
Pain
Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
William Shakespeare
Pain
One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
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Past
What is past is prologue.
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Past
We have seen better days.
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Past
Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.
William Shakespeare
Patience
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
William Shakespeare
Patience
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble
breasts.
William Shakespeare
Patience
How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by
degrees?
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Patience
Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]
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Peace
A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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Perfection
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
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Perseverance
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache
patiently.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophies.
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Pity
Soft pity enters an iron gate.
William Shakespeare
Plays
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to
work.
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Police
You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable
of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.
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Purpose
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
William Shakespeare
Purpose
Every why has a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
Punishment
And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
William Shakespeare
Punctuality
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Publicity
I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
William Shakespeare
Psychiatry
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted
sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet
oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which
weighs upon the heart?
William Shakespeare
Proverbs
The proverb is something musty.
William Shakespeare
Prophecy
Beware of the ides of March.
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Procreation
He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.
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Procrastination
In delay there lies no plenty.
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Procrastination
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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Pride
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what
he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic
tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
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Preachers and Preaching
But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the
steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine
himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
William Shakespeare
Prayer
Bow, stubborn knees!
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Praise
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
William Shakespeare
Power
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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Poverty and The Poor
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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Potential
Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Potential
For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
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Possibilities
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee,
the more I have, For both are infinite
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Pollution
I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
William Shakespeare
Politicians and Politics
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never
loved them.
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Politicians and Politics
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare
Politicians and Politics
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things
thou dost not.
William Shakespeare
Questions
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to
suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against
a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. [Hamlet]
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Quarrels
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Resolution
Who is so firm that can't be seduced?
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Resolution
For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.
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Reputation
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost
the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
William Shakespeare
Regret
Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.
William Shakespeare
Reason
Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after,
gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
William Shakespeare
Reason
Strong reasons make strong actions.
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Results
Nothing will come of nothing.
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Retirement
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.
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Retirement
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the
running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Revenge
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare
Revenge
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you
poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare
Riches
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred
pounds a year!
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Risk
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
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Risk
Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
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Royalty
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Security
Security is the chief enemy of mortals.
William Shakespeare
Seduction
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be
won.
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Self-control
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it
like a giant.
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Self-love
Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
Self-respect
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night
the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Self-talk
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk,
will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
William Shakespeare
Silence
Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could
say how much.
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Sin
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
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Sin
I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
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Sin
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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Slander
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
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Smells
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
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Smile
A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
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Smile
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [Hamlet]
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Sorrow
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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Spring
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
William Shakespeare
Strangers
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare
Strength
How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use
like a giant.
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Style
I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
William Shakespeare
Success
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
Suicide
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come
to us?
William Shakespeare
Will and Will Power
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
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Will and Will Power
Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
William Shakespeare
Welfare
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
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Waste
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
William Shakespeare
War
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the
name.
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War
Cry ''havoc!'' and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall
smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.
William Shakespeare
Vow
'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that
is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
Vow
Men's vows are women's traitors!
William Shakespeare
Vow
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must
not hold.
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Visualization
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
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Virtue
Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
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Virtue
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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Vanity
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare
Valor
When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
William Shakespeare
Unemployment
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
William Shakespeare
Truth
While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
William Shakespeare
Trust
Love all, but trust a few.
William Shakespeare
Trust
Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
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Travel and Tourism
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
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Time and Time Management
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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Time and Time Management
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Thought is free.
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Thoughts and Thinking
There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Make not your thoughts you prisons.
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Temptation
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
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Temptation
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving
virtue.
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Talkativeness
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in,
the wit is out.
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Tact and Tactfulness
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou
familiar but by no means vulgar.
William Shakespeare
Swearing
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.
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Swearing
A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine
oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is
disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
William Shakespeare
Youth
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old
with all the characters of age?
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Youth
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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Worry
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
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World
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare
Words
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
Wives
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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Wit
He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
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Wisdom
To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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Wisdom
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
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Winners and Winning
Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
William Shakespeare
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