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Quote by William Shakespeare

“O, how full of briers is this working-day world!”

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William Shakespeare (1564 - April 23, 1616) was one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, renowned for his dramatic works. His plays spanned a variety of genres, including tragedy, comedy, and history, and have had a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.”

Thinking Men Long States Today Death Fall Easy Dying Greatness Bears Tomorrow Roots Thirds Killing Honour Thick Farewell Impermanence Frost Blushing Ripening

Author:William Shakespeare

“One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.”

Firsts Law Energy Left Attention Talent Concentration Faculty This Day Shallow

Author:William Matthews

“Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.”

Thinking Men World Want Giving Trying Real Hard Problem Faces Left Discipline Overcoming Give Me Critics Sickness Grants Associates Companionship Loan Good Health

Author:William Feather

“The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.”

Forgiving Pity Occasions Pairs

Book:The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.”

Night Song Emperor Cathedrals Resonance Walkers Gongs

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.”

Men Moments Dream Pleasure Endure Esteem Painter Brushes His Love

Book:COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

“Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”

Years Long Said Done Might Conscience Years Ago Down And Vanity

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”