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