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