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'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare
Cooking
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'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare
Decay
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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
William Shakespeare
Idols
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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
William Shakespeare
Welfare
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'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
Vow
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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
William Shakespeare
Mind
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'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
William Shakespeare
Army and Navy
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...O brave new world, That has such people in't!
William Shakespeare
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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
Friends and Friendship
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
William Shakespeare
Friends and Friendship
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
William Shakespeare
Self-talk
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
William Shakespeare
Talkativeness
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A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.
William Shakespeare
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare
Youth
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A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
Peace
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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare
Politicians and Politics
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A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
William Shakespeare
Smile
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A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
William Shakespeare
Futility
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A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
William Shakespeare
Swearing
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Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Action
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
William Shakespeare
Misfortunes
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare
Lovers
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
William Shakespeare
Jokes and Jokers
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All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
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All the world's a stage
William Shakespeare
Uncategorised
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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.
William Shakespeare
World
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All the worlds 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. At first the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurses arms. Then the whining
William Shakespeare
Uncategorised
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
Ambition
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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.
William Shakespeare
Comedy and Comedians
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare
Excuses
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And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
William Shakespeare
Time and Time Management
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And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
William Shakespeare
Punishment
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Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare
Censorship
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
Life and Death
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As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare
Ambition
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As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes
William Shakespeare
Poetry, Poet
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
Virtue
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare
Action
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Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
Greatness
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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
William Shakespeare
Slander
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -
William Shakespeare
Beauty
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Punctuality
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Beware of the ides of March.
William Shakespeare
Prophecy
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Bow, stubborn knees!
William Shakespeare
Prayer
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Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
William Shakespeare
Brevity
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But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
William Shakespeare
Love
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare
Happiness
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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
William Shakespeare
Courage
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
William Shakespeare
Immortality
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But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare
Preachers and Preaching
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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
William Shakespeare
Medicine
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
William Shakespeare
Psychiatry
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare
Fame
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Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
William Shakespeare
Ceremony
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Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.
William Shakespeare
Farewells
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Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
William Shakespeare
Company
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
William Shakespeare
Conceit
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
William Shakespeare
Conceit
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Conscience does make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare
Conscience
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
Conversation
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
Dress
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Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Coward and Cowardice
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Coward and Cowardice
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Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.
William Shakespeare
War
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
William Shakespeare
Fame
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
William Shakespeare
Procrastination
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
William Shakespeare
Youth
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Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
William Shakespeare
Trust
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Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
William Shakespeare
Moralists
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Every good servant does not all commands.
William Shakespeare
Obedience
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Every why has a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
Purpose
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Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
William Shakespeare
Fashion
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Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
William Shakespeare
Retirement
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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.
William Shakespeare
Fear
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
William Shakespeare
Sin
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First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
Lawyer, Law and Lawyers
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For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.
William Shakespeare
Engineering
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For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
William Shakespeare
Potential
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For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.
William Shakespeare
Resolution
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
William Shakespeare
Bores and Boredom
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare
Deception
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For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
William Shakespeare
Cheating
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For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
William Shakespeare
Bereavement
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For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
Philosophers and Philosophy
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For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
William Shakespeare
Modern and Modernism
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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
William Shakespeare
Friends and Friendship
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
William Shakespeare
Politicians and Politics
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Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment
William Shakespeare
Listening
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Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
William Shakespeare
Tact and Tactfulness
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Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will they come when you do call for them?
William Shakespeare
Uncategorised
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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
William Shakespeare
Fame
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God had given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
Faces
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God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
Cosmetics
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Good counselors lack no clients.
William Shakespeare
Experts
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
William Shakespeare
Grief
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Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked to mine enemies.
William Shakespeare
Uncategorised
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
William Shakespeare
Loyalty
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
William Shakespeare
Age and Aging
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