Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
I bear a charmed life.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
They do not love that do not show their love.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Speak low, if you speak love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Death is a fearful thing.