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

“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.”

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

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

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

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”