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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
“An overflow of good converts to bad.”
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
“Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!”
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
“Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”