95 quotes by William Shakespeare

“How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” — William Shakespeare

Source:The Merchant of Venice, 1596-1598. Play.

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“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” — William Shakespeare

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“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

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“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” — William Shakespeare

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“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” — William Shakespeare

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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare

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“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.” — William Shakespeare

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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” — William Shakespeare

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“Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.” — William Shakespeare

Source:William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73

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“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.” — William Shakespeare

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“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” — William Shakespeare

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“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” — William Shakespeare

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“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!” — William Shakespeare

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“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.” — William Shakespeare

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“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” — William Shakespeare

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“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination; all compact.” — William Shakespeare

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“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

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“The golden age is before us, not behind us.” — William Shakespeare

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“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” — William Shakespeare

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“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.” — William Shakespeare

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“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” — William Shakespeare

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“Speak low, if you speak love.” — William Shakespeare

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“In time we hate that which we often fear.” — William Shakespeare

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“They do not love that do not show their love.” — William Shakespeare

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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — William Shakespeare

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