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“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
William Shakespeare
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
William Shakespeare
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
William Shakespeare
“This above all; to thine own self be true.”
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
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
William Shakespeare
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
William Shakespeare
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
William Shakespeare
“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
William Shakespeare
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
William Shakespeare
“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”
William Shakespeare
“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
William Shakespeare
“Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.”
William Shakespeare
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”
William Shakespeare
“Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”
William Shakespeare
“If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.”
William Shakespeare
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
William Shakespeare
“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
William Shakespeare
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”
William Shakespeare
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
William Shakespeare
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.”
William Shakespeare
“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”
William Shakespeare
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
William Shakespeare
“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”
William Shakespeare
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
William Shakespeare
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
William Shakespeare
“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
William Shakespeare