We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Wisdom
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Quotes by William Shakespeare
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Love
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is 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.
Life
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Wisdom
If music be the food of love, play on.
Love
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Wisdom
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Success
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Wisdom
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Wisdom
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
Love
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Wisdom
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Wisdom
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.
Life
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Education
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Truth
Listen to many, speak to a few.
Wisdom
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Wisdom
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Love
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Wisdom
The wheel is come full circle.
Wisdom
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Wisdom
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.
Life
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Life
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Life
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