William Shakespeare

(112 votes)   To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(111 votes)   Art made tongue-tied by authority.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(111 votes)   Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(111 votes)   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
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(111 votes)   For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(111 votes)   Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   "Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scence V, L. 1-3

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(109 votes)   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
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   Bow, stubborn knees!

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   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
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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