How full of briers is this working-day world!
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Quotes by Shakspeare
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Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
Wisdom
He hath a daily beauty in his life.
Life
Now God be praised, that to believing souls, Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!
Wisdom
Charity—gently to hear, kindly to judge.
Wisdom
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Wisdom
There's a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
Wisdom
God! Thy arm was here. And not to us, but to Thy arm alone, Ascribe we all.
Wisdom
Can we outrun the heavens?
Wisdom
However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
Wisdom
Oh, that men should put an enemy in Their mouths, to steal away their brains.
Wisdom
Consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Wisdom
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Wisdom
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teachings.
Wisdom