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William Shakespeare: Oh! how bitter...

William Shakespeare: Oh! how bitter...

Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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William Shakespeare: Virtue is bold,...

William Shakespeare: Virtue is bold,...

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Source: Measure for Measure, III. i....

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William Shakespeare: How poor are...

William Shakespeare: How poor are...

How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?


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William Shakespeare: Too swift arrives...

William Shakespeare: Too swift arrives...

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Source: Romeo and Juliet, II. vi....

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William Shakespeare: God pardon all...

William Shakespeare: God pardon all...

God pardon all oaths that are broke to me!
God keep all vows unbroke are made to thee!


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William Shakespeare: I have set...

William Shakespeare: I have set...

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: I have not...

William Shakespeare: I have not...

I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.


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William Shakespeare: And thus I...

William Shakespeare: And thus I...

And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint when most I...

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William Shakespeare: My mind is...

William Shakespeare: My mind is...

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred;
And I myself see not the bottom of it.


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William Shakespeare: The baby figure...

William Shakespeare: The baby figure...

The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.


Source: Troilus...

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William Shakespeare: Perseverance, dear my...

William Shakespeare: Perseverance, dear my...

Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty...

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William Shakespeare: The rarer action...

William Shakespeare: The rarer action...

The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.


Source: The Tempest, V. i....

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William Shakespeare: I hold the...

William Shakespeare: I hold the...

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad...

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George Bernard Shaw: My father must...

George Bernard Shaw: My father must...

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts...

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George Bernard Shaw: The English are...

George Bernard Shaw: The English are...

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of...

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George Bernard Shaw: The frontier between...

George Bernard Shaw: The frontier between...

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at...

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George Bernard Shaw: The great secret,...

George Bernard Shaw: The great secret,...

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having...

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George Bernard Shaw: The philosopher is...

George Bernard Shaw: The philosopher is...

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to...

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George Bernard Shaw: Science becomes dangerous...

George Bernard Shaw: Science becomes dangerous...

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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George Bernard Shaw: Take care to...

George Bernard Shaw: Take care to...

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. Where there is no ventilation fresh air is...

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