William Shakespeare

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

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(347 votes)   Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]

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

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(346 votes)   My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

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

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(341 votes)   It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

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

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(335 votes)   Soft pity enters an iron gate.

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

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(332 votes)   I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

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

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(313 votes)   O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

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

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(309 votes)   Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

William Shakespeare

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(304 votes)   Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

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

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(302 votes)   He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.

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

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(300 votes)   Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

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

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(299 votes)   If they only would kill all lawyers and doctors

William Shakespeare
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(296 votes)   Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

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

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(291 votes)   O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?

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

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(282 votes)   '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
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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