And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods
makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
--William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so
--William Shakespeare
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
--William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
God be prais'd, that to believing souls gives light in darkness,
comfort in despair.
--William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
--William Shakespeare
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
--William Shakespeare
I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
--William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew.
Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
--William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
--William Shakespeare
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
--William Shakespeare King Richard
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
--William Shakespeare King Henry V , Act 3 scene ?
It is a wise father that knows his own child
--William Shakespeare
To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.
--William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
--William Shakespeare
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
--William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
--William Shakespeare
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
--William Shakespeare Julius Caesar I.ii.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
--William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak
Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it break.
--William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth, IV, iii
[Thou] mountain of mad flesh!
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Comedy of Errors
[Thou art] a disease that must be cut away.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Coriolanus
[May] the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Richard III
Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove, or most magnanimous mouse.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Henry IV
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good
we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
--William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
--William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
--William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may become
--William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world!
--William Shakespeare
I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.
--William Shakespeare
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
--William Shakespeare Witches in Macbeth
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble
--William Shakespeare Witches in Macbeth
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.
--William Shakespeare Hamlet
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