“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare BadGoodLifeWiseThinking
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” William Shakespeare Good
“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.” William Shakespeare ActionGodWork
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare FearGoodWinWisdomDoubtAttemptTraitor
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare
“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.” William Shakespeare ChildFather
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare
“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.” William Shakespeare DeadFather
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” William Shakespeare Love
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” William Shakespeare WiseChoiceMenAdversitySayLetEmbraceSourWisest
“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.” William Shakespeare
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” William Shakespeare Patience
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” William Shakespeare GodSoulDarknessLightComfortDespairBelieving
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” William Shakespeare ActionWiseWittyShortPleasureHours